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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.
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Che, X. (2012, October 07). Early Cycladic Figurines. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/914/
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Che, Xuan. "Early Cycladic Figurines." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified October 07, 2012. https://www.ancient.eu/image/914/.
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Che, Xuan. "Early Cycladic Figurines." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 07 Oct 2012. Web. 07 Apr 2020.
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