Kusura type sitting schematic figure
- Anatolia, south-west region
- Early Anatolian Bronze III (ca. 2400-2200 B.C.)
- Greyish white marble
- Height: 19.5 cm
- INV. 202-32
This tall statuette, of rare elegance, presents all characteristics of a very common type. The proportion of the three elements as well as the shape of the body could vary considerably. The Kusura type itself is also subject to variations. The body of the Barbier-Mueller statuette turns out to be unusually big in comparison with the head and neck. Laid in children’s tombs, such figurines were often purposely broken during rites of passage from the world of the living to the kingdom of the dead [1].
Published in: Zimmermann 1993, p. 129 and 151 (n°47).
[1] For parallels, see Thimme 1977, n°486-502; Zimmermann 1993, n° 42-46, 48-50.
- Pat Getz-Gentle
- Le profane et le divin, arts de l’Antiquité. Fleurons du musée Barbier-Mueller, musée Barbier-Mueller & Hazan (éd.), 2008 : p. 263.
