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Early Cycladic 'violin' figurines in marble, 3200-2800 BCE. The figurines represent a squatting female figure but their exact significance is not known. Most probably they represent a female fertility deity. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens).
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Original image by Xuan Che. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 07 October 2012 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Che, X. (2012, October 07). Early Cycladic Figurines. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/914/early-cycladic-figurines/
Che, Xuan. "Early Cycladic Figurines." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified October 07, 2012. https://www.ancient.eu/image/914/early-cycladic-figurines/.
Che, Xuan. "Early Cycladic Figurines." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 07 Oct 2012. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
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