Marthari, M. 2017. Early Cycladic sculptures as archaeological objects (original) (raw)
in M. Marthari, C. Renfrew and M. Boyd (eds.), Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context, Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow, pp. 13-21
It was a February afternoon in 2009, in the prehistoric antiquities room of the Archaeological Museum of Naxos, when I first talked with Colin Renfrew about the publication of all the Early Cycladic figurines found in excavations. Our conversation took place among the cases in which the antiquities from Keros, and all the large figurines from Aplomata, Phiondas, and other sites are exhibited. Renfrew, as the excavator of Keros, where a large number of marble figurine fragments and vases have been recently found, wanted to look for comparanda in the excavated material. The author, as the then Ephor of the Ephorate of Antiquities for the Cyclades but also the excavator of Skarkos, wished to see all the excavated material published. Thus we joined forces and after a long collaboration our efforts materialized in the form of a symposium entitled Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context, held at the Athens Archaeological Society on 27–29 May 2014. The results of this symposium are presented here. The current volume aims to publish a very important class of material, partly unknown to scholarship. At the same time, it constitutes a break from the usual way of treating and publishing Early Cycladic sculptures...
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An Early Cycladic Figurine from the Acropolis of Athens, in M. Marthari, C. Renfrew, M. Boyd (eds), Beyond the Cyclades. Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from Mainland Greece, the North and East Aegean, Papers presented at a Symposium held at the Archaeological Society at Athens, 25 -26 May 2015, Oxford 2019, 22-34.
In Marthari, M., C. Renfrew and M. Boyd (eds.) 2019. Beyond the Cyclades: Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from Mainland Greece, the North and East Aegean. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow
Marble sculptures of the Cycladic canonical folded-arm form are quite widely found outside the Cycladic Islands themselves. They are mainly found in contexts of the mature phase of the Aegean Early Bronze Age, the time of the Keros-Syros culture, and the form seems to have developed in the Cycladic Islands, where it is preceded both by the Plastiras type and the Louros type. The earliest (Kapsala) variety of the folded-arm figure is rare outside the Cyclades, but the Spedos variety does occur at a number of sites on the Greek mainland and Euboea, to which those examples found were presumably imported from the Cyclades. In addition, the Dokathismata variety occurs at Nea Styra on Euboea. Among the varieties of the folded-arm type only one, the Koumasa variety, seems to have been produced outside the Cyclades...
Beyond the Cyclades, Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from Mainland Greece, the North and Eastern Aegean, 2019
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