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THBRare Anatolian Marble Kilia Idol
Lot 91a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Ancient Western Asia, Anatolia, Early Bronze Age II, ca. 2700 to 2400 BCE. A creamy brown marble idol of the kilia (kiliya) variety from the Cycladic sculptural tradition, with the rare body remaining (rather than the head, which is more commonly found). The body is roughly triangular in shape, with deep, narrow cuts forming the wide arms and giving the impression of a narrow waist and wide hips. The body has rounded shoulders which taper inward to a slender cylindrical neck, and a rounded head with a tapering mouth, a tab-shaped nose, and a pinched brow tops the figure. Kilia are highly-stylized female figures made throughout the Mediterranean during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. When first made, their faces would have boasted painted details like eyes, but the bodies do not seem to have been painted. Size: 1.6" W x 2.7" H (4.1 cm x 6.9 cm); 3.75" H (9.5 cm) on included custom stand.
Votive idols like this one are known in a variety of fascinating forms throughout the pre-literate ancient world. From this truly abstract kilia figure to the exaggerated feminine shapes of so-called "Venus" figures, people in the past, as today, had a clear desire to portray human forms and did not feel constrained by naturalism. Figures like these seem to be portraying worshippers rather than gods, and we believe that they were small enough that ordinary people could have owned them and kept them on home altars. Still others are found clustered in temples.
A stylistically-similar example of a larger size hammered for $28,125 at Sotheby's, New York "Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic Antiquities" auction (December 8, 2010, lot 41): http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2010/egyptian-classical-and-western-asiatic-antiquities-n08688/lot.41.html
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection, acquired at Arte Primitivo Gallery, New York, New York, USA; ex-private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Harlan Berk collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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#143610Head reattached to neck and is likely from another figure. Loss to legs, with minor chips and abrasions to body, head, and verso, and light encrustations. Nice earthen deposits and calcified patina throughout.Condition
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