Stars, Stars, and All Eyes

This head is a fragment of a handmade terracotta anthropomorphic figurine. A break at the top of the head indicates that the upper part of a headdress or coiffure is now missing. A...

Terracotta sculpture, known as an eye idol, probably from the Mesopotamian site of Tell Brak in northeastern Syria, where thousands of such sculptures were found in a part of the s...

This “master of animals” finial depicts a stylized man with an (attacking?) animal on each side. The man has a fungiform cap, open at the center for insertion of a pin. The man, wh...

Interior: Gorgoneion, drawn in outline, with irises and lips in added white, the tongue and hair in added red; Exterior: Quadripartite with two eye-areas and two handle-areas. In b...

Inspired by Near Eastern vessels and monster imagery, Greek metal smiths of the seventh century BC produced numerous cauldrons of hammered metal that were adorned with the heads an...