This small pair of human figures were modeled directly in wax. The heads were fashioned out of flattened balls of soft wax from which the noses were pinched out into thin, vertical ridges. The breasts are small, flattened balls of wax pressed onto the torsos. The base was formed by the remains of the metal that puddled at the bottom of the casting cup—evidence that the group was cast head-down in the mold. The figures could thus essentially be seen as decorated sprues. Group of Two Human Figures, Syro-Hittite, 15th–13th century BCE, H. 7.4 cm (Harvard Art Museums / Arthur M. Sackler Museum, gift of Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg, 2004.205). See Lie, Henry, and Francesca G. Bewer. 2014. “Ex Aere Factum: Technical Notes on Ancient Bronzes.” In Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens: Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes, edited by Susanne Ebbinghaus, 38–63. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums., 46.