Figurine of a woman Artist: Unknown

ca. 2400–2200 B.C.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

White coarse-grained marble

Dimensions

7 5/8 × 3 5/16 × 15/16 in. (19.4 × 8.4 × 2.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Frederic E. Ossorio, B.A. 1942

Accession Number

1970.24.1

Culture
Period

Middle Bronze Age, Early Cycladic II

Classification
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Bibliography
  • Pat Getz-Gentle, "A Cycladic Figure Attributed to the Israel Museum Sculptor," in "Recent Acquisitions," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2011), 82, fig. 2
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 259, ill
  • Steven C. Rockefeller and John C. Elder, Spirit and Nature: Visions of Interdependence, exh. cat. (Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1990), 35, no. 6, ill
  • Jurgen Thimme, ed., Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millenium B.C. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 289, no. 228
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