Two idols of white marble displayed at the Afyon Archaeological Museum attrack attention of not only archeaologists, but also visitors by their heads rendered in different shapes from the known ones in Anatolia. Both of these objects are chance fin.ds: the first is from Susuz Höyük (Pl. I. Fig. ı ), which is situated 16 kms. north of Afyon, and the second was found at Kusura (Pl. I. Fig. 2) long after the closure of the scientific excavations and was bought by the museum. Although these idols do not show any differences either in their sizes or manufactures from the Early Bronze Age examples, they display a tapering projection on on.e sides of heir heads that gives them a distinct apparance. The meaning of these projections is unknown and is difficult to determine. They may be taken as a highly stylized hairdress or a head gear, or they are meant to represent a religious symbol.

The 16 anthropomorphic figures, so-called idols, were found at the mound of Kültepe (Kaniş) in the seasons of 1959 (Pis. I, II and III, 16) and 1970 (Pl. III, 15) and before the systematic excavations started (Pl. III, 14). Except those 3 (Pl. III) which are unstratified finds, all are funerary gifts of one of the two angular cist graves unearthed in squares of P/37 and P/37-38 2. All of the figures but one which is of white marble are made of white alabaster and ground. The sizes vary from 3 cm. to 16.5 cm. Some of the figures from the grave show weathering (Pl. I Fig. 2) or damage for the body (Pl. I, Pl. II, 7 and Pl. II, ii) and some others have the head and neck missing (Pl. I Figs. 4-5, Pl. II, 8, 12-13), thus suggesting that they had been in use before being placed into the grave.