Cycladic idol Woman balancing girl on her head 29.2 cm high, 7.4 cm wide, 0.4 kg weight, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
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Double idol: female Cycladic idol carries a second, smaller one on her head; marble, early Cycladic II (2700-2400), in the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe since 1860.
State Museum Karlsruhe
Cycladic idols are religiously motivated representations from the independent culture that developed on the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea. This epoch spanned the period from 3,000 BC to 1,100 BC.
A woman acrobatically balances a girl on her head. Of this
of this subject exist, one of which can be seen in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
The idol, from the Greek eidolon, ‘image’, is a more or less crafted, not always fully figurative object made of stone, bone, clay and other materials. The idol was regarded as a bearer of protective power and was worshipped as such. Idols have been documented as the earliest materialisation of magical-religious worship since the later Palaeolithic period.
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