Harvard Art Museums
Terracotta Eye Idol, Tel Brak
- Date
- c. 3000 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Sumerian
- Department
- Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
- Institution
- Harvard Art Museums
Terracotta sculpture, known as an eye idol, probably from the Mesopotamian site of Tell Brak in northeastern Syria, where thousands of such sculptures were found in a part of the site now known as the "Eye Temple" and dating to the late 4th millennium B.C. The most common type of eye idol is a flat figurine with a trapezoidal body and narrow neck topped by oversized eyes. This item is one of the less common three dimensional idols, with a conical body and pierced eyes.
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