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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 284658, member: 2844&quot;]I am no expert on Phoenician bronzes, but this fellow looks artificially aged to me. There is a thriving market in antiquities, which means there is a thriving market in fakes.</p><p>The Bulgarians seem to be very good at making fake &#039;ancient&#039; bronzes, they sell them as fake, but unscrupulous dealers will sell them as genuine.</p><p>It is best to check if this dealer is reputable and knows his stuff. The fact that he doesn&#039;t know the identity of this god doesn&#039;t sound very convincing to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>About the identity of the god. Many Phoenician gods have a raised arm for a spear. So we have to look at other characteristics. Surely I am not the only one who has noticed that this god is ictyphallic? That could mean this god is Adon, the young god of love. Also known as &#039;the Lord&#039; (sound familiar?), or Ba’al Adon, Adonis in Greece, and remembered in the name Adonai when referring to Yahweh in Judaism.</p><p>There is a myth about the death of Adon, where his mourning lover, goddess Astarte, recreates him using his erect phallus. Much like the Egyptian myth of Osiris and Isis, and with the same meaning – restoration of the cycle of life and of fertility of the land.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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