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Idols The Power of Images. Annie Caubet

C.A.
References: 
Thimme 1977; Takaog˘lu 2005.
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Kilia figure
Western Anatolia
Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age
(3300–3000 BC)
Marble, H. 14.5 cm, W. 6.14 cm
Private Collection, Germany
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Kilia figure
Western Anatolia
Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age
(3300–3000 BC)
Marble, H. 14 cm
Private Collection, UK
(courtesy RWAA)


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diSK idol
Kültepe type
Anatolia, Cappadocia
Early Bronze Age III (ca. 2300–2000 BC)
Gypsum alabaster, H. 26.3 cm,
W. 15.5 cm
Ligabue Collection, Venice
Bibliography:
Ligabue, Rossi-Osmida 
2006, pp. 120–121.
This is a good example of disk-shaped 
figures from Cappadocia at the end 
of the third millennium. At the site of 
Kültepe, these figures were deposited 
in cultic buildings. Some of them 
are double, with two necks on one 
body; others, like this one, present a 
smaller, similar disk-figure, enclosed 
on their own body. In most cases, the 
elongated neck ends in an arrow-
shaped head, enlivened by large 
circular eyes, as in the smaller figure 
here. Exceptionally, a globular head 
is modelled with realistic facial traits, 
mouth, ears and nose, the protruding 
eyes retaining the fixed gaze of 
the former type. The Ligabue idol 
combines both styles. The disk bodies 
are finely decorated with rows of 
drilled circles and bands in relief. The 
lower part of the main figure is now 
broken but would probably show a 
sexual triangle, which is preserved on 
the smaller disk, giving it a feminine, 
“mother and child” or pregnancy 
character. This reading is deceptive, 
however: the overall contour of the 
disk-idols is distinctly phallic; this is 
especially evident here in the small 
secondary figure, which is placed 
where male genitals would be. This 
results in a complex combination, a 
pregnant, androgynous and ithyphallic 
symbol, to be compared, for example, 
with the phallic female idols from 
Chalcolithic Cyprus. The emphasis 
on the eyes is also a recurrent factor, 
encountered in Anatolia and Syria 
Mesopotamia.
C.A.
References: 
Özgüc 1993; Shoki Goodarzi in 
Aruz, Wallenfels 2003, no. 180; Öztürk, 2013.


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EGYPT


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Standing feMale figure
WitH croSSed arMS
Egypt, Hierakonpolis, “Main Deposit”, 
Temple enclosure
Naqada II – Early Dynastic period 
(3300–3000 BC)
Ashmolean Museum of Art and 
Archaeology – University of Oxford, 
gift Harold Jones (head) AN 1896-1908 
E1057-1057 A
(cat. 45, detail)
eGypt, A World ApArt
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gypt had its own original approach to the development of complex society in 
the construction of the state-controlled pharaonic civilization. Visual media 
played a major role in this construction, notably via the depiction of human 
figures over the 
longue durée. 
Anthropomorphic figures of the predynastic period 
appeared on large variety of forms and media, clay, stone and ivory figures, painted 
vessels, “tag” figurines, combs, stone palettes and mural paintings in tombs.
in the course of the Badari period (ca. 4400–3700 Bc), an enduring tradition began 
with three-dimensional nude female figures in realistic fashion. decorated clay ves-
sels of the period, using a white pigment over a dark brown-red background, depicted 
groups of human figures interacting with animals, dominated by one individual of 
indeterminate sex, his raised arms in a harmonious circle. By the naqada ii period 
(3450–3300 Bc), the raised arms motif appears on the numerous decorated vessels 
of the new style, painted dark red on a buff background, centred around Abydos. 
the motif is also present on a few, rare clay figures, generally female: two of these 
are presented in the show. 
these clay figures with raised arms are executed in abbreviated style, one of 
the two major visual approaches followed by the naqada ii artists when creating 
anthropomorphic figurines, in clay or ivory. the realistic style prolongs the tradition 
emerged in the previous period, with numerous male figures in clay, standing on 
two differentiated legs, their conspicuous genitals either ithyphallic or maintained 
in a sheath. in the abbreviated style statuettes, the legs are joined into one pointed 
element, the lower body is shaped as a long peg, which may have served to plant 
the figure in sand or dirt, an indication of how they may have been used. When the 
pigments are well preserved, the choice of colours seems to answer to specific rules, 
such as the flesh being painted dark red: the red colour would be distinctive of the 
male figures in wall paintings in tombs, from the old Kingdom onwards. Body dec-
oration and tattoos are also detailed.
interaction between humans and animals is characteristic of the tomb paintings of 
the nagada ii period, the forerunners of the painted tombs of historical egypt. tomb 
100 at Hierakonpolis was covered with images of humans attempting to control the 
creatures of nature on land and water, an interpretation comforted by the abundant 
animal burials at the necropolis of Hierakonpolis.
graywack stone and ivory were used for a number of artefacts displaying all the 
characteristics of the naqada ii artists, in both realistic and abbreviated style. the 


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delightful “tag” figurines in stone and ivory are conspicuous for their round eyes 
carved in a triangular face over a simplified body. ivory was a major medium for 
predynastic artists, a material generally taken from the tusks of local hippopotamus, 
an awesome creature of the nile who played a major role in egyptian iconography 
at all times. in exceptional cases, the ivory was from elephant tusks, imported from 
Africa via the upper nile. control of the routes to and from Africa was to be a con-
stant concern of egyptian rulers in the future. ivory was used to carve a variety of 
artefacts and anthropomorphic figures, nude females, ithyphallic statuettes, combs 
topped by a human “ghost” silhouette with large eyes, “tusks” figures. these, carved 
from either elephant ivory or the straight hippopotamus incisor, were crafted and 
transformed 

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