Terracotta Eye Idol, Tel Brak
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Where is “Terracotta Eye Idol, Tel Brak” now? Collection: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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About the sculpture
Terracotta sculpture, known as an eye idol, probably from the Mesopotamian site of Tell Brak in northeastern Syria, where thousands of such sculptures were found in a part of the site now known as the "Eye Temple" and dating to the late 4th millennium B.C.
The most common type of eye idol is a flat figurine with a trapezoidal body and narrow neck topped by oversized eyes. This item is one of the less common three dimensional idols, with a conical body and pierced eyes.
Harvard Art Museums
Details
- Accession number
- 2003.245
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
