Tell Brak Type Clay Eye Idol

CIRCA 3500-3000 B.C.

3 5/8 in. (195 grams, 92 mm).

With a squat body and two looped eyes, slightly convex base. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired in 1992.
From the collection of Nicholas Wright (d.2005); thence by descent.

Literature

See parallel idols in the Louvre Museum, accession number SB 9141, for similar examples; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.1988.323.8; British Museum, excavated by Professor Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, inv. nos.126473, 126477 and 126479; see also Collon, D., Ancient Near Eastern Art, London, 1995, p.47, for type; for the discussion on Tell Brak, their iconography and the religious meaning of eye idols see Green, J.B. & T.R., Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia, An illustrated dictionary, London, 1992, pp.78-79.

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