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Schematic Figure
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This flat, roughly violin-shaped figure has a finly polished surface. It combines the traits of different schematic figurine or idol types: the head resembles the Kusura type and the body resembles the Beycesultan type. This combination of types is also referred to as the "Afyon Type."
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Schimmel Long Island NY (by 1964) gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1965.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Schimmel
Title: Schematic Figure
Description:
This flat, roughly violin-shaped figure has a finly polished surface.
It combines the traits of different schematic figurine or idol types: the head resembles the Kusura type and the body resembles the Beycesultan type.
This combination of types is also referred to as the "Afyon Type.
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