SculptureAnatolian3rd millennium BCE
Schematic Idol
c. 2700 BCE-c. 2100 BCE
Description
Statuette with oval head perched atop long neck with tapers upward. Square shoulders atop a wide body with convex bottom edge. Corroded surface. Intact. Some chips missing from rounded top and bottom edge of body. These abstract human figures were found widely in third millennium burials throughout western Anatolia.
Dimensions
13.2 x 7 x 0.7 cm (5 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Louise M. and George E. Bates, Camden, ME (by 1971-1992), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1992.
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