Kusura-Beycesultan idol

Kusura-Beycesultan type idol of flattened form with rounded pouch-like body, triangular arm stumps, short neck and round head.

Circa 2700-2100 BC

Notes:
The so-called Kusura-Beycesultan type idols mix the features of both sites : the disc shaped head of the Kusura idols and the pouch-like body with small arm stumps of the Beycesultan idols, also known as “violin idols”.


Literature:
THIMME J.(ed.), “Art and Culture of the Cyclades”, 1976, pp.178-189, p386; n.511-520.
SPYCKET A., “The Human Form Divine”, From the Collections of E. Borowski, 2000, p. 68, n. 41 A-B. "Gods an Goddesses", Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, 1992, p. 95, n° 113