{The Goddess in Aegean Art [continued (3)]}[9th February 1991]

[Redbook8:248][19910209:1600d]{The Goddess in Aegean Art [continued (3)]}[9th February 1991]

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‘In the Early Cypriot [period], the only surviving sculptures are a series of steatite cruciform figures of a mother goddess (3000-2500BC[E]),* stylised in much the same way as contemporary Cycladic idols, from which they may have been derived.’

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*2048J~ [& lower-left-quarter-circle (symbol)]

**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:60]

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