Cycladic head. Height: 16 cm.

Description

Figure of high quality made in reconstituted marble (marble dust with synthetic resin). Patina of aging with natural earth. Reproduction is inspired in ancient models from museums.

Dimensions of reproduction: Height: 16cm; Width: 7cm.

Cycladic Head of the year 2500-2000 BC. The original piece is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The Cycladic culture belongs to the group of pre-Hellenic civilisations (predecessors of Classical Greece), along with the Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations. It developed from 3300 BC to 2100 BC in the Greek archipelago of the Cyclades, named after the roughly circular shape in which these islands are scattered (kyklos = circle in Greek).

The best known aspect of the Cycladic world is its sculptures without marked detail except for the nose, with a schematic tendency towards rounded profiles and with great geometry in their features. These figures, predominantly female, were sculpted in marble and then ground and polished with emery stone. They were placed in tombs and were supposed to have a similar function to the Egyptian ushabtis as companions of the deceased in the afterlife.