LATE SPEDOS VARIETY, CIRCA 2500-2400 B.C.

細節

A CYCLADIC MARBLE HEAD
LATE SPEDOS VARIETY, CIRCA 2500-2400 B.C.
From a large reclining female figure, sculpted with a long lyre-shaped head, the chin rounded, the slender nose well centered, the neck flaring slightly and off set from the head by a deep groove, preserving red pigment "tattoos" adorning the face, including two rows of dots across the forehead, three rows of dots along the right cheek and a solid band under the chin
4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm.) high

來源

with C. Dikran Kelekian, Ancient Arts, New York, 1966.

拍品專文

Although rarely preserved, most Cycladic sculpture of the Spedos Variety would have originally been richly painted in red and blue pigment. As Getz-Preziosi informs (p. 56 in Sculptors of the Cyclades, Individual and Tradition in the Third Millennium B.C.), "...to the Early Bronze Age islander the color probably had a powerful magical meaning" and may "reflect the way the faces of the dead were painted for burial" (p. 55 op. cit.).