AN ANATOLIAN MARBLE IDOL, of stylized form, the semi-circular body with rudimentary arms, the long neck tapering to a disc-shaped head, slight restoration at neck, early 3rd millennium B.C.

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AN ANATOLIAN MARBLE IDOL, of stylized form, the semi-circular body with rudimentary arms, the long neck tapering to a disc-shaped head, slight restoration at neck, early 3rd millennium B.C.
4in. (10.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Exhibition catalogue, The Anatolian Civilizations I: Prehistoric, Hittite, Early Iron Age, Istanbul, 1983, nos. A408-A409. This type has been called the "Kusura Type" by Prof. C. Renfrew in the American Journal of Archaeology, 73, 1969, p. 27ff. after similar idols from the site of Kusura

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