Description:

Ancient Near East, present-day Turkey, Anatolia, Chalcolithic Period, Bronze Age II, ca. 2700 to 2500 BCE. A fine example of a head fragment from an abstract stargazer idol known as a kilia, hand-carved from creamy white marble. The trapezoidal artifact features a broad, pinched brow with an acutely angled edge, tapered lateral peripheries, and a slender neck where it attached to the shoulders, and a vertically severed 'face' which perhaps contained a pair of painted features at one time. Kilia idols are highly stylized female figures carved throughout the Mediterranean during the Chalcolithic period and Early Bronze Age. Archaeologists have interpreted these figures as female and call them "stargazers" because their heads are tilted upwards. Size: 1.5" L x 1" W x 1" H (3.8 cm x 2.5 cm x 2.5 cm); 2.25" H (5.7 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private German collection, acquired in 1981

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#170847

  • Condition: Fragment from a larger figure as shown. Restoration to upper left corner. Great preservation to overall abstract form

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