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Schematic Idol

Schematic Idol

Anatolian

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.

Marble

Bronze Age

Sculpture