Photos of Beautiful Ancient Greek Cycladic Museum Antiquity Art & Cycladic Dolls excavated from Archaeological sites on the Cyclades Islands Greece. Photos by Photographer Paul E Williams. (TIP – use the icons below the slideshow for thumbnail photos and info)
Beautiful Ancient Greek Cycladic Museum Antiquity Art
Photos of Ancient Greek Cycladic Art Antiquities excavated from the Cyclades Island in Greece. The ancient Cycladic culture flourished in the islands of the Aegean Sea from c. 3300 to 1100 BC.
The best known type of Cycladic antiquity is the Cyclades doll, most commonly a single full-length female figure with arms folded across the front. Considerable numbers of these are known. These marble figures are seen scattered around the Aegean, suggesting that these figures were popular amongst the people of Crete and mainland Greece.
One of the most famous of these figures are musicians: one of a harp-player and the other a pipe-player. Dating to approximately 2500 BCE, these musicians are sometimes considered the earliest example of musician sculptures from the Aegean.
Most important the early Cycladic Civilisation groups (3300–2700 BC) is the Grotta–Pelos culture are Pelos, Plastiras and Louros. Pelos figurines are of schematic type. Both males and females, in standing position with a head and face.
The Louros type figurines are seen as transitional, combining both schematic and naturalistic elements. Schematic figures are more commonly found and are very flat in profile, having simple forms and lack a clearly defined head.
Naturalistic figures are small and tend to have strange or exaggerated proportions, with long necks, angular upper bodies, and muscular legs.
The purpose of these antiquities to the peoples of the cycladic civilisations is unknown but archaeologists believe that the objects were not mad as burial goods.
Photos in this photo collection include Cycladic antiquities from Athens Archaeological Museum and the Cycladic Museum of Athens.
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