Eye Temple
temple, Tall Birāk, Syria
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feature of Tall Birāk
- In Tall Birāk
…discoveries at Birāk was the Eye Temple (c. 3000), so named because of the thousands of small stone “eye idols” found there. These curious objects have almost square bodies and thin heads carved with two to six large eyes. The temple itself is important for its use of typically southern…
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