Lime plaster statues from Ain Ghazal

These extraordinary statues are the earliest large-scale representations of the human form. They were found as part of a cache of up to 25 statues buried in a pit under the floor of an abandoned house. All have naturalistically rendered heads and faces. The larger figures have realistically represented bodies, when the smaller ones are more schematised. Many are decorated with paint or shallow incisions to indicate hair, items of clothing, and to highlight facial features.

这批非同寻常的雕像，是目前已知最早的大型人体形象具象作品。它们作为一处窖藏的组成部分被发现，该窖藏中共藏有多达25尊雕像，均被掩埋于一处废弃房屋地板下方的坑穴内。所有雕像的头部与面部均以自然写实的手法塑造。体型较大的雕像躯体刻画逼真写实，而体型较小的作品则更偏向程式化处理。多数雕像还通过彩绘或浅刻工艺，来表现毛发、服饰细节，并强化面部特征。