Near East, Tel Brak, modern day Syria, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. A highly abstract stone idol figure hand carved from a mottled green stone with 2 staring eyes. Tell Brak was a major Mesopotamian city in northeastern Syria, located on a trade route between the Tigris River Valley north to Anatolia, the Euphrates, and the Mediterranean Sea. The most famous building excavated at this huge site was the Temple of the Eyes, where thousands of figures made of stone with incised eyes have been found. Archaeologists believe that these idols were placed there as offerings as wide eyes meant religious attentiveness and devotion to the gods in Mesopotamian art. Size: 1.25" L x 0.2" W x 2.5" H (3.2 cm x 0.5 cm x 6.4 cm); 2.9" H (7.4 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: East Coast collection, New York Gallery, New York City, New York, USA, acquired before 2010

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Repaired. Neck and head area reattached and tip of head. Hairline breaks and fissures in these areas. Minor chips to lower corners. Mineral encrustations and mineral deposits on the verso.