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  CYCLADIC ART

Modern sculpture ca. 2500 BCE:

Most of the Cycladic sculptures, like many of their Stone Age predecessors in the Aegean, the Near East, and western Europe, represent nude women with their arms folded across their abdomens.

Marble was abundantly available in the superb quarries of the Aegean Islands, especially on Naxos and Paros.		    
       
  4-1: Figurine of a woman, from Syros (Cyclades), Greece, ca. 2500-2300 BCE. Marble, approx. 1' 6 high. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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Music for eternity:

Male figures also appear in the Cycladic repertoire. The most elaborate of these take the form of seated musicians.

4-2: Male lyre player, from Keros (Cyclades), Greece, ca. 2700-2500 BCE. Marble, approx. 9 high. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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