**First Time At Auction**

Ancient Near East / Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey, Anatolia, Neolithic / Chalcolithic period, ca. 5500 to 3000 BCE. A fine example of a hand-built terracotta idol head of a tall conical form with slanted, slit-form eyes, a perky nose, a petite impressed mouth, and a tapered brow. Ancient idols like these, that reduce the human figure to a collection of minimalist shapes and lines, are considered some of our oldest forms of abstract art. They fascinate us today in part because they hint at a belief system and cosmology that we can no longer access or understand. Size: 0.7" W x 1.8" H (1.8 cm x 4.6 cm); 2.7" H (6.9 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection

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#143481

This is a fragment of a larger sculpture. Minor nicks to forehead, nose, and neck line, with light encrustations within some recessed areas, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits throughout.