Near Eastern Antiquities 212 HITTITE SMALL BRONZE STRIDING GOD ON A BULL, the bearded god wearing a stepped conical headdress. Ca. 1400-1200 BC. H. 3 3/8 in. (8 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from S. Dere, New York, in 1990. 213 NEAR EASTERN BRONZE YOUTHFUL CENTAUR PLAYING A LYRE Probably a vase handle, the curly-haired centaur standing on a lower element of that handle. Possibly Parthian, ca. 4th Century AD. H. 5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in Munich, December 2009. 214 HITTITE OR NEO-HITTITE BRONZE HORSE AND RIDER, the rider, wearing a conical cap, holds the reins to his mount on which an elaborate head harness is placed. Ca. 1200-900 BC. H. 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Sotheby’s New York in December 1997. 215 SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER VOTIVE BULL, stylized with powerful build and integrally carved plinth. 1st-3rd Century AD. H. 3 1/2 in. (9 cm.) Ex Janssens collection, acquired in the 1970s. Cf. Yémen, au pays de la reine de Saba, exhibition catalog, Paris, 1997, p. 211.
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