Full Description
This second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the preceding volume), and of those found in Crete. The significance of these finds is that these are the principal testimonies of the influence of the Early Bronze Age Cycladic cultures in the wider Aegean. This influence is shown both by the export of sculptures produced in the Cyclades (and made of Cycladic marble), and of their imitations, produced elsewhere in the Aegean, usually of local marble. They hold the key, therefore, to the cultural interactions developing at this time, the so-called 'international spirit' manifest particularly during the Aegean Early Bronze II period.This was the time when the foundations of early Aegean civilisation were being laid, and the material documented is thus of considerable significance. The volume is divided into sections wherein contributions examine finds and their archaeological, social, and economic contexts from specific regions. It concludes with an overview of the significance and role of these objects in Early Bronze Age societies of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region. This will be the first time that this material has been systematically gathered together. Highly illustrated, it follows and builds on the successful preceding volume, Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxbow 2016).
Contents
List of contributors Abbreviations List of figures List of tables Preface 1 Introduction Colin RenfrewBefore the Bronze Age2 Past in the past: examples of Neolithic figurines from mainland Greece and Early Cycladic anthropomorphic imagery Fanis MavridisAttica3 An Early Cycladic figurine from the Acropolis of Athens Lena Papazoglou-ManioudakiAppendix: optical examination of a Cycladic-type marble figurine from the Acropolis and vessels from Makronisos in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens Dimitris Tambakopoulos & Yannis Maniatis4 Aghios Kosmas revisited: the Cycladic figurines from the Early Helladic site at Aghios Kosmas in Attica Katerina Kostanti & Alexandra Christopoulou5 Two Cycladic figurines from subterranean Chamber III, in the Early Helladic settlement at Koropi, eastern Attica Olga Kakavogianni6 Cycladic figurines from Tsepi, Marathon Maria Pantelidou Gofa7 Fragment of an Early Cycladic folded-arm figurine from the acropolis of Brauron Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos8 An Early Helladic figurine from Loutsa, Attica Maria Stathi9 A schematic figurine from the area of Kephissos in Aegaleo, thens Eleni Asimakou10 A figurine from a tomb at Mandra in western Attica Kalliopi Papangeli11 A fragmentary Cycladic figurine from Nea Kephisia, Attica Theodora Georgousopoulou12 Cycladic-type figurines from the Early Helladic cemetery of Asteria at Glyfada, Attica Konstantina Kaza-PapageorgiouAppendix: the bioarchaeological context of the Asteria figurines Eleanna PrevedorouPeloponnese13 Early Cycladic sculpture from Delpriza in the southern Argolid Angeliki Kossyva14 Cycladic figurine from the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas in Epidauria Vassilis Lambrinoudakis15 A Cycladic figurine from Upper Epidaurus Christos Piteros16 An Early Cycladic figurine from a Late Protogeometric burial context in Argos Evangelia PappiNorth Aegean, Boeotia, Euboea, Phthiotis and Skyros17 Early Bronze Age schematic figurines from Thermi on Lesbos Olga Philaniotou18 A comment on a Cycladic figurine in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes Eleni Andrikou19 Cycladic figurines from Euboea Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki20 Manika revisited: a recontextualisation of Euboean Cycladica in the light of new research Adamantios Sampson & Athena Hadji21 Cycladic marble figurines from the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Nea Styra, Euboea Maria Kosma22 Cycladica from the settlement at Palamari on Skyros Liana Parlama23 Conspicuous consumption in the settlement context of Early Bronze Age Proskynas inEast Lokris, central Greece Eleni ZahouDodecanese and Asia Minor littoral24 Early Cycladic figurines from Vathy, Astypalaia Andreas Vlachopoulos & Anastasia Angelopoulou25 Early Cycladic II and Early Bronze II finds from the Dodecanese: the case of the island of Kos Toula Marketou26 n Early Cycladic anthropomorphic figurine from the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes Athena Hadji27 Local and imported in action: western Anatolian and Cycladic figurines at Early Bronze Age Miletus Ourania Kouka28 3rd-millennium BC anthropomorphic figurines of western Anatolia, a comparative view.Towards a better understanding of the origins and meanings of Cycladic figurines Riza Tuncel & Vasif SahogluNew discoveries in the Cyclades29 Sculptures from the Papaoikonomou property on Ano Kouphonisi Irini Legaki, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Eugenia OrfanidouEarly Cycladic Sculpture in Perspective30 Early Cycladic sculpture beyond the Cyclades: the Aegean context Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Marisa MarthariIndex
