Hand

9th-8th century BCE H: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm) Citation Source image

This short, fat, clenched left hand must have been attached to a small statue, perhaps of a local god. On the wrist is a wide inlaid bracelet decorated by squares alternating with stripes. The hand is bent up slightly. The fingers taper unnaturally towards the (missing) thumb....

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25328
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MacGregor Collection [lot 679]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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