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Schematic Figure
Unidentified Artistc. 2500 BCE
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
This flat, roughly violin-shaped figure has a finly polished surface. It combines the traits of different schematic figurine or idol types: the head resembles the Kusura type and the body resembles the Beycesultan type. This combination of types is also referred to as the "Afyon Type."
Details
- Title: Schematic Figure
- Creator: Unidentified Artist
- Creator Lifespan: 1/1
- Date: c. 2500 BCE
- Technique: Carved
- Physical Dimensions: w8.7 x h16.0 x d0.2 cm
- Period: Bronze Age
- Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Schimmel
- Creation Place: Anatolia/Asia/Ancient & Byzantine World
- Type: Sculpture
- External Link: Harvard Art Museums
- Medium: Marble
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