Description
Early in acquiring the ability to cast bronze-like material, humans first cast essentially pure copper and it was not until recognizing the utility of adding other metals into it that man managed to improve its hardness and durability. This exceedingly rare museum object dates from the very early period when bronze had not yet been devised. Early copper sculpture has the freshness of humans looking at nature with a different eye and reproducing it unlike anything that followed later. Excellent object for its beauty and rarity c. 4th millennium BC, ancient Near East.
Size: 2 ¼ in. high by 3 in. wide
