Terracotta kernos - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Period: Early Cycladic III–Middle Cycladic I Date: ca. 2300–2200 B.C.

Marble female figure - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Attributed to the Bastis Master Period: Early Cycladic II Date: 2600–2400 B.C.

Marble seated harp player - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Period: Late Early Cycladic I–Early Cycladic II Date: 2800–2700 B.C.

Cycladic Culture

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Culture which developed on the Cyclades Islands in the southern Aegean during the phase known as the Early Bronze Age or Early Cycladic (c.3300–2000), characterized by a series of fine figurines made from the local marble. Most of the evidence of the culture is from its – much looted – cemeteries, which are relatively small and which suggest a degree of social differentiation: the richest graves may contain more than one figurine and multiple marble bowls, together with painted pottery or even special items such as the silver diadem found at Dokathismata.

Archaeology—Dictionaries. I. Shaw, Ian, – . II. Jameson, Robert. - 1999

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Cycladic Culture