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Ancient Bactrian / BMAC Stone Seated Idol Figure

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Ancient Bactrian / BMAC Stone Seated Idol Figure

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Description

Central Asia, Bactria-Margiana (BMAC) (Oxus Civilization), Bronze Age, ca. 3000 to 2000 BCE. A idol figure hand-carved from dark gray stone with an angular body and a recessed cavity atop the neck meant to accommodate a removable head. The body is incised with striped triangles representing leaves, and the planar base creates a stable ground. Most excavated examples of this figure type come from sites in Margiana in southern Turkmenistan, a possible center of their production.

Provenance: private Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA collection, inherited via grandfather, who collected before 1980

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Condition

Original head missing as shown. Minor abrasions and nicks, with softening to some incised decorations, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to overall form.