A Cycladic Marble Figure of a Goddess, early Bronze Age II, circa 2600-2500 B.C.

of Spedos type, lying with her arms folded beneath the prominent breasts, with grooved toes, rounded thighs, broad shoulders, and large lyre-shaped head with straight triangular nose, the broad spine and other details grooved, the ghost of her formerly painted hair falling in a long tapering plait over the back of the head, and in a long curl on each side of the head.

Heinz Weisz Collection, Geneva, acquired in the 1950s
by descent to the present owner

Proper left foot repaired with small area of restoration along the join beneath the heel, top of head and nose somewhat weathered, surface very slightly worn overall, layer of modern grime could be removed with light cleaning
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For a related example in the Goulandris Collection (no. 104a) see Chr. Doumas, Cycladic Art: Ancient Sculpture and Ceramics from the N.P. Goulandris Collection, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 36. For similar hair on a slightly later head see P. Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections, Richmond, Virginia, 1987, no. 46.

The style of this figure is related to that of the Fitzwilliam Master (see Pat Getz-Preziosi, Sculptors of the Cyclades, Individual and Tradition in the Third Millennium B.C., Ann Arbor, Mich., 1987, pls. 26-27).