2003.245: Terracotta Eye Idol, Tel Brak
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2003.245
- Title
- Terracotta Eye Idol, Tel Brak
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- c. 3000 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia
- Period
- Early Dynastic III period
- Culture
- Sumerian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/72347
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Carol Hebb and Alan Feldbaum
- Accession Year
- 2003
- Object Number
- 2003.245
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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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.
Verification Level
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