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

lying with her legs bent slightly at the knees and forearms resting beneath her breasts, with long slightly tapering neck, and slender lyre-shaped head with straight nose, the spinal column indicated by a wide shallow groove, traces of red pigment marking the neck, chin, and hairline, black pigment outlining the eyes(?) and indicating the hair in front and back.

private collection, Washington, D.C., acquired from Mathias Komor, New York, December 14th, 1977
East Coast private collection, by descent (Sotheby's, New York, May 31st, 1997, no. 64, illus.)

Luminous surface covered with scattered root marks and incrustation, repaired at juncture of neck and body and across proper right leg below knee, proper right foot chipped, proper left foot restored, figure more heavily encrusted in back than in front.
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For related figures cf. J. Thimme, Kunst und Kultur der Kykladeninseln im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr., Karlsruhe, 1976, nos. 138-149, and P. Getz-Preziosi, Sculptors of the Cyclades: Individual and Tradition in the Third Century B.C., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1987, pl. 26, no. 2 (B.V. Bothmer, et al., eds., Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, New York, 1987, no. 48). The form of the head is similar to P. Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections, Virginia, 1987, no. 47.