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Lower body and feet of prehistoric idol, upper side. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Lower body and feet of prehistoric idol, underside. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lower Body and Feet of a Prehistoric Idol
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 1
- Date
- Ca. 2500-2000 BC (?), Early Bronze Age
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S69.007
- Material
- Schist, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Prehistoric, Human Figure
- Site
- Eski Balıkhane
- Sector
- BT
- Trench
- EB
- Findspot
- EB, trench A., 0.80 below surface, ca. 1.0-1.10 below top of marker A. In rubble fill near cover of a grave but not apparently connected with burial.
- Description
Preserved are the lower body and legs tapering to small pointed feet. The interior of the legs is unfinished. This is an example of a flat idol of obese type.
According to D.G. Mitten it is “like a silhouette cut-out of a mother goddess figurine.”
- Condition
- Gray, hard schist, yellow accretion. Broken at top (waist) and splintered at sides.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.076; W. 0.075; Th. 0.007
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: Mitten-Yüğrüm, Eski Balıkhane, 195, fig. 8.
- Author
- GMAH