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Female statuette, early Spedos type
Early Aegean, Cycladic
Bronze Age, Early Bronze Age, Early Cycladic II
about 2600–2500 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Cyclades, Greece
Medium/Technique
Marble
Dimensions
Height: 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Amory Gardner Fund
Accession Number35.60
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 004; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 106 (additional published references).
DescriptionStatuette of a woman; arms folded across body; knees slightly bent. Spinal column indicated by groove. Rows of red dots can be discerned on the forehead and cheeks of this figurine. Red paint outlines neck where it joins head and body.
Provenance1935, sold by Theodoros Zoumboulakis (dealer), Athens, to the MFA for $100. (Accession Date: March 7, 1935)