Sursock bronze
The Sursock bronze, also known as the Sursock statuette, is a gilt-bronze sculptural group of Jupiter Heliopolitanus dating to the second century AD. The work is a miniature of the cult statue of the god as it stood in the Great Temple of Baalbek, Lebanon, around the mid‑second century AD. Measuring 38.4 centimeters (15.1 in) in height, the bronze stands on a small cubic base flanked by a pair of young bulls, with the entire group resting on a larger rectangular plinth. Jupiter Heliopolitanus is a syncretic supreme deity who was venerated in the Great Temple of Baalbek, the largest sanctuary…
- material
- bronze
- held at
- Louvre Museum · art museum
- inv. no.
- AO 19534