Fragment of an eye-idol

Details

• Title

  Fragment of an eye-idol

• Associated place

  Asia › Syria › Tell Brak (find spot)

• Date

  8500 BC - 3000 BC
  Chalcolithic Period (Levant) (4500 - 3000 BC)
  Early Uruk period (3800 - 3600 BC)
  Middle Uruk period (3600 - 3400 BC)
  Late Uruk period (3400 - 3100 BC)

• Material and technique

  terracotta, hand-modelled

• Object type

  sculpture › figure › figurine

• Dimensions

  6.2 cm (height)
  5.2 cm (width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Allocated by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1938.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1939.144

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