Western Anatolian, middle of the 3rd millennium B.C.

Marble

H: 9.8 cm

Serial: 17406

Provenance: Old Collection of Charly Mathez, Neuchâtel, acquired prior to 1999

Published: Phoenix Ancient Art 2006-1, Geneva – New York, 2006, no. 3  

This figurine is from a class known as the Kusura type, of which it constitutes one variant.

The finely crafted figurine presented here – the thinness of the marble is testament to the skill of the carver – is a clear example of those from Kusura, possessing a body that is a bit narrower and the neck a bit thicker than the canonical examples of the type.