The Stargazer

Western Anatolia, early Bronze Age · c. 3000 BCE

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Object record

1993.165

Statuette of a Woman: "The Stargazer"

Date: c. 3000 BCE
Material: Marble
Dimensions: 17.2 × 6.5 × 6.3 cm
Weight: 453.6 g
Location: 102A Ancient Near East
Credit: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; John L. Severance Fund

The "Stargazer" moniker was given to this diminutive marble sculpture because its upturned head looks toward the heavens. Details carved into the stone are visible while painted features have been lost to time.

Did you know

We can identify this mysterious figure as female by the inscribed pubic triangle below her waist.

Mesh

Photogrammetry by Howard Agriesti, Cleveland Museum of Art. 7,502 vertices, 15,000 triangles, with photogrammetry color, roughness, and normal maps. Download the GLB mesh (CC0).

Provenance

Said to have been found near Kırşehir, Turkey
Nelson Rockefeller (before 1962)
Melba Davis Whatley Greenlee, Austin, Texas
Harmon Fine Arts Collection, Leonard Norman Stern, New York
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993–

Workshop

Kilia-type figures of this form were made at Kulaksızlar. Read the workshop essay.

CC0 1.0 Universal — Public Domain. Photographs and 3D model published by the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access initiative.

Stargazer build

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How long was the Stargazer build

My first project was The Stargazer. It took a few days. I conceptualize as I go. I have done the same with the other apps. The information density is skyrocketing. As of Monday, September 7, 2026, twenty-one days into the first hardcoded rebuild for publication, the team and I have made all these assets and more. That is why this first project is the Vibealive landing page.

Me: How much time into the Stargazer web app, Grok?

Grok: There is no real git history to clock it hour by hour. One snapshot, labeled "Export from Grok," on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM CDT. Dates below are from file timestamps and that chat.

First created. Monday night, August 17, 2026, about 11:44 PM CDT. That is when the CMA mesh, stargazer.glb, and the first vitrine files landed.

Last code change. Friday, August 21, 2026, 12:45 PM CDT. The 180° opening pose. Nothing in the app was edited after that in those sittings. Later turns were only questions.

Elapsed. About three and a half days on the calendar, August 17 night through August 21 midday. Not three and a half days of straight work. A few sittings.

When (CDT)	What
Mon Aug 17, late	First 3D vitrine, official CMA mesh
Thu Aug 20, afternoon to evening	Object record, Workshop essay, OG / X cards
Fri Aug 21, late morning	Camera, no ground plane, title clearance, 180° start

From the first "build this from the Cleveland 3D viewer" prompt to the version you still see: on the order of two working sessions, not weeks. Git never recorded the in-between commits, so there is no tighter "X hours of coding" number than that.