Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol
Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol

Tell Brak Stone Double Eye Idol

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North Mesopotamia – Northeastern Syria, ca. 3500 to 3300 BC

 Gypsum or yellowish colored stone carved cojoined figures of abstracted flattened form, with incised eyes and curved eyebrows, narrow neck, shoulders sloping to a broad body and flat base. 


Size  1-5/8 inch (4.3 cm) Height.  x 2-3/8 in (6.3 cm) W. + custom mount. 

Within the Tell Brak “eye idol” corpus, twin or double-headed examples are rare but well-attested and carry particular iconographic weight. Thousands of single figures are known from the Eye Temple deposits, whereas only a small subset show two heads or multiple sets of eyes, so a compact conjoined piece like yours sits toward the unusual, more notable end of the series.

Given the relative scarcity of double idols in a deposit otherwise dominated by single figures, a well-provenanced conjoined example like this would be considered a relatively significant, “textbook” specimen within the type—both academically and for collecting—rather than a routine Eye Temple votive

Provenance: Galerie Irene von Ohlendorf, Munich, Germany; Collection Kapustin (acquired in the 1960s/70s) Ex Bernd Gackstätter, “Antiken-Kabinett”, Frankfurt a. M., Germany (2014)
German Private Collection

Compare examples in 'Early Mesopotamia and Iran' by M.E.L. Mallowan, pages 46 to 50. 

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