The Sun God Shamash
Copper
Circa 1700-1600 B.C.
From Syria; exact provenance unknown
Purchased with funds given by Shelby White, the Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, and the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 1995.27
Shamash, a Near Eastern sun god, is shown seated. His helmet is decorated in relief with horns and topped by a sun disk, which may have been copied fromrepresentations of Egyptian solar deities. Shamash's fine features and full, pointed beard are typically Syrian; his eyes were once inaid. His arms are bent forward, with the hands partially preserved. He wars a mantle with a thick border over a kilt with a fringed hem.
The Sun God Shamash
Copper
Circa 1700-1600 B.C.
From Syria; exact provenance unknown
Purchased with funds given by Shelby White, the Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, and the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 1995.27
Shamash, a Near Eastern sun god, is shown seated. His helmet is decorated in relief with horns and topped by a sun disk, which may have been copied fromrepresentations of Egyptian solar deities. Shamash's fine features and full, pointed beard are typically Syrian; his eyes were once inaid. His arms are bent forward, with the hands partially preserved. He wars a mantle with a thick border over a kilt with a fringed hem.