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Relief with a seated woman or goddess

Near Eastern, Anatolian, Neo-Hittite
Iron Age
10th–9th century B.C.
Findspot: Turkey, Marash

Medium/Technique Andesite
Dimensions Height x width: 46 x 28 cm (18 1/8 x 11 in.)
Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund and funds donated by Horace L. Mayer
Accession Number60.1156
ClassificationsArchitectural elementsRelief

DescriptionRelief depicting a seated woman (queen?) or goddess.
ProvenanceSaid to be from Marash in southeastern Turkey. Before 1960, French private collection. 1960, sold by J.J. Klejman (dealer; b. 1906 - d. 1995), New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)