Early Bronze Age Stone Double-Headed Disc-Shaped Figurine and Child

This wonderful marble idol is designed with a degree of stylization characteristic of the design of idols created in virtually every early civilization of the Ancient Near East. As a result, the body has been treated as a uniform disc--shape form in which indications of the arms and legs have been purposefully suppressed. Two tall and elegant columnar--like necks, separated from that body by a neck--line, rise up to display two separately made, triangularly--shaped heads which are conjoined at their sides. The features of these heads are minimally defined by linear adjuncts in--filled with darker material in order to indicate the hair, forehead, and eyes. The five striations in the far corner of the head on the right may be indications of a beard in order to suggest that this idol is to be understood as a god.