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

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‘The early Cycladic period* is celebrated principally for its statuettes and vases carved from the brilliant coarse-crystalled marble of these islands. The statuettes, mostly of goddesses, are among the first products of the Greek Bronze Age. They owe their charms to the extreme simplification of bodily forms. The typical “Cycladic idol” is a naked female, lying with her head back, her arms crossed over her breasts. These figures vary in size from a few inches to more than six feet in length [(Figure 1)].’**

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*(c3000-2000BCE)

ie 2048G~[& left-semi-circle (symbol)]

**[A photocopy on the following page, p 240, of the ms, marked ‘ref 248 above, Cycladic idols’, of an illustration not reproduced here, is captioned: ‘Figure 1: Marble cycladic idol from Amorgos, Greece, c[irca] 2500 BC[E. In the national Archeological Museum, Athens.’ – E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 27:60]

***E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 27:60

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