Terracotta Eye Idol, Tel Brak
c. 3000 BCE
Description
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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