id:			146146
accession number:	1971.45
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.45
updated:		2025-07-11 17:03:16.021000

Priest-King or Deity, c. 1600 BCE. Hittite, North Syria. Basalt with bone eyes (left, ancient; right, restored); overall: 87.6 cm (34 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1971.45

title:				Priest-King or Deity
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			c. 1600 BCE
creation date earliest:		-1605
creation date latest:		-1595
current location:		102A Ancient Near East
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Hittite, North Syria
technique:	basalt with bone eyes (left, ancient; right, restored)
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Near Eastern Art
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Overall: 87.6 cm (34 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1971
	opening date:   1971-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1971</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Maguerite Mallon, Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1971
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1971-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Kozloff, Arielle P. "A Hittite Priest-King Figure." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 59, no. 2 (1972): 56-62.
	page number: 	pp. 56-62
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152417

	<em>Gazette Des Beaux Arts </em>vol. 79, no. 227 (February 1972).
	page number: 	p. 66, fig. 227
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	Spaeth, Eloise. <em>American Art Museums: An Introduction to Looking. </em>New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1975.
	page number: 	p. 339
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 2
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n22

	Spycket, Agnès. <em>La statuaire du Proche-Orient ancien</em>. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981.
	page number: 	p. 266, note 187
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	Merhav, Rivka, "The Stele of the 'Serpent Goddess' from Ell beit Mirsim and the Plaque from Shechem Reconsidered," <em>The Israel Museum Journal </em>vol. 4 (Spring 1985).
	page number: 	pp. 29-30, pl. V, 1A, aB
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 3
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n19

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>1991.
	page number: 	no. 1
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 68
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