APEIRANTHOS TYPE, EARLY CYCLADIC II-III, CIRCA 2700-2000 B.C.

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A CYCLADIC MARBLE ABSTRACT SCHEMATIC IDOL
APEIRANTHOS TYPE, EARLY CYCLADIC II-III, CIRCA 2700-2000 B.C.
5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva; thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

J. Thimme, Art and Culture of Cyclades, Chicago and London, 1977, p. 435, no. 61.

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Lot Essay

This idol belongs to the Apeiranthos type, named after a village in Naxos, Greece. It is a development of the 'spade-shaped' type of the Early Cycladic I period (3200-2800 BC), but differs in that the head and body are not completely flat, but carved in outline. Cf. C. Zervos, L'art de la Crète Néolithique et Minoenne, Paris, 1956, p. 128, no. 95 for a similar shaped idol, but found in a tomb in Porti, Crete.

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