Beyond the

Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from Mainland , the North and East Aegean

Edited by

Marisa Marthari

Colin Renfrew Michael J. Boyd

fy OXBOW I books

Oxford & Philadelphia CONTENTS

List of contributors xi Abbreviations xiii List offigures xv List of tables xix Preface xxi

1 Introduction 1 Colin Renfrew

Before the Bronze Age

2 Past in the past: examples of Neolithic figurines from mainland Greece and Early Cycladic anthropomorphic imagery 6 Fanis Mavridis

Attica

3 An Early Cycladic figurine from the Acropolis of Athens 22 Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki Appendix: optical examination of a Cycladic-type marble figurine from the Acropolis and vessels from Makronisos in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Dimitris Tambakopoulos & Yannis Maniatis

4 Aghios Kosmas revisited: the Cycladic figurines from the Early Helladic site at Aghios Kosmas in Attica 35 Katerina Kostanti & Alexandra Christopoulou

5 Two Cycladic figurines from subterranean Chamber III, in the Early Helladic settlement at Koropi, eastern Attica 44 Olga Kakavogianni

6 Cycladic figurines from Tsepi, Marathon 51 Maria Pantelidou Gofa

1 Fragment of an Early Cycladic folded-arm figurine from the acropolis of Brauron 56 Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos

8 An Early Helladic figurine from Loutsa, Attica 62 Maria Stathi

9 A schematic figurine from the area of Kephisos in Aegaleo, Athens 67 Eleni Asimakou

10 A figurine from a tomb at Mandra in western Attica 76 Kalliopi Papangeli viii CONTENTS

11 A fragmentary Cycladic figurine from Nea Kephisia, Attica 79 Theodora Georgousopoulou

12 Cycladic-type figurines from the Early Helladic cemetery of Asteria at Glyfada, Attica 94 Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou Appendix: the bioarchaeological context of the Asteria figurines, Eleanna Prevedorou

Peloponnese

13 Early Cycladic sculpture from Delpriza in the southern Argolid 108 Angeliki Kossyva

14 Cycladic figurine from the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas in Epidauria 119 Vassilis Lambrinoudakis

15 A Cycladic figurine from Upper Epidaurus 126 Christos Piteros

16 An Early Cycladic figurine from a Late Protogeometric burial context in Argos 132 Evangelia Pappi

North Aegean, , , and

17 Early Bronze Age schematic figurines from Thermi on Lesbos 142 Olga Philaniotou

18 A comment on a Cycladic figurine in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes 152 Eleni Andrikou

19 Cycladic figurines from Euboea 155 Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki

20 Manika revisited: a recontextualisation of Euboean Cycladica in the light of new research 163 Adamantios Sampson & Athena Hadji

21 Cycladic marble figurines from the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Nea Styra, Euboea 168 Maria Kosma

22 Cycladica from the settlement at Palamari on Skyros 183 Liana Parlama

23 Conspicuous consumption in the settlement context of Early Bronze Age Proskynas in East Lokris, 190 Eleni Zahou

Dodecanese and Asia Minor littoral

24 Early Cycladic figurines from Vathy, Astypalaia 202 Andreas Vlachopoulos &Anastasia Angelopoulou

25 Early Cycladic II and Early Bronze II finds from the : the case of the island of 227 Toula Marketou

26 An Early Cycladic anthropomorphic figurine from the Archaeological Museum of 232 Athena Hadji

27 Local and imported in action: western Anatolian and Cycladic figurines at Early Bronze Age Miletus 237 Ourania Kouka CONTENTS ix

28 Third-millennium BC anthropomorphic figurines of western Anatolia, a comparative view. Towards a better understanding of the origins and meanings of Cycladic figurines 250 Riza Tuncel & Vasif §ahoglu

New Discoveries in the Cyclades

29 Sculptures from the Papaoikonomou property on Ano Kouphonisi 266 Irini Legaki, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Eugenia Orfanidou

Early Cycladic Sculpture in Perspective

30 Early Cycladic sculpture beyond the Cyclades: the Aegean context 280 Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Marisa Marthari

Index 297