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Stone idol. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Stone Idol
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 7
- Date
- Ca. 2700-2000 BC, Early Bronze Age
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 640
- Museum Inventory No.
- 640
- Material
- Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Human Figure
- Site
- Sancaklı Bozköy?
- Description
- White stone idol of flat, abstract form with rounded, shovel-shaped body, stump arms, projecting neck, and disc-shaped head. Arms are delineated from body by notches on the sides and shallow grooves at the clavicles, the only apparent alterations to the otherwise flat and smooth surface.
- Comments
- Said to come from Sancaklı Bozköy. Prehistoric remains at the site are generally referred to by the authors in the bibliography. The idol appears to be derivative of the better known Beycesultan and Kusura types, with the stump arms of the former and the disc-shaped head of the latter.
- See Also
- Roosevelt, “Lydia Before the Lydians”.
- Bibliography
- Mellaart 1954, 175, 192; French 1968, 235; French 1969, 54 no. 40; Renfrew 1969, 27; Korfmann et al. 1994, 185 no. 1171.
- Author
- CHR