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Kusura-type idol from 3rd millenium BC Anatolia examined by Prof. Lambert

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Object number
AR1496
Object: Idol, Kusura type
Material: White, finely crystalline limestone
Dating: 2700 - 2100 BC
Bronze age
Description: Idol made from white marble, typical stylized shape popular in Bronze Age Anatolia. So-called "Kusura type".
The body has the shape of a thick plate. The wide side is rectangular with grounded edges, it evolves into a long neck with an almost circular head.
The idol was inspected and confirmed to be authentic by late Prof. Lambert, University of Birmingham.
Size: Length 55 mm, width 30 mm.
Condition: Perfect condition, excellently preserved surface. No damages.
Remarks: The name of this idol type refers to Kusura, an archaeological excavation in modern Turkey. There, in layer II, several comparable idols were found. Since then, we now have evidence for the popularity of these strongly stylized idols from the western coast of Asia Minor until far into the inland.
References: H. Schmidt, Heinrich Schliemann's Sammlung Trojanischer Altertümer (1902) 279, Nr. 7520.
Zaalhaas, Idole, page 42ff. and page 30, plate 6.
Prähistorische Staatssammlung München, Inv.nr. 1984, 3405 and 1984, 3406 and 1984, 3407.
M. Mellink, Excavations at Karatas-Semayük (1966).
American Journal of Archeology 71 (1967) 254, plate 77, fig. 13.
Provenance: Found in the Near East. Acquired by Victor Copeland in the 1950s. Later acquired by C. Sawyer. Inspected by Prof. Lambert. Acquired by the Alte Roemer Gallery in 2011.
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