Female Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 3000 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art

Medium: Shell
Dimensions: 2 × 1 1/8 × 3/8 in. (5.1 × 2.9 × 0.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Frederic E. Ossorio, B.A. 1942
Accession Number: 1970.24.2
Culture: Greek, Cretan
Period: Neolithic
Classification: Sculpture
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Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (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), 34, no. 5, ill

Jurgen Thimme, ed., Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millenium B.C. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 211, 213, no. 3, 7–10

Peter J. Ucko, Anthropomorphic Figurines of Predynastic Egypt and Neolithic Crete with Comparative Material from the Prehistoric Near East and Mainland Greece (London: Andrew Szmidla, 1968),

Ludwig Budde and Richard Nicholls, A Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum, 1964),

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