/internal/media/dispatcher/1568200/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSeated man holding a food dish10th–9th century B.C.Height x width x depth: 49.4 x 23 x 23 cm (19 7/16 x 9 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.)Andesite (gray basalt)Florence E. and Horace L. Mayer Fund, Marilyn M. Simpson Fund, and John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund1996.3361Man seated holding food dish in right hand. In Tell Halaf, in Syria, several statues of this type were found in tomb chapels associated with the burials of high-ranking individuals. Funerary reliefs depicting people seated in the same posture and holding food dishes have also been excavated in Marash in southeastern Turkey.Sculpture49.400000000023.000000000016476001