Museum Exhibition
Cycladic Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From January 25, 2024
The presentation offers an extraordinary opportunity to closely examine a large body of little known Cycladic works that have been repatriated to Greece.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Cycladic
Marble female figure
ca. 2700–2500 BCE
Marble
Height: 16 3/4 in. (42.6 cm) Width: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm) Depth: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm) Thickness: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)
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Cycladic
Marble head of a figure
ca. 2700–2500 BCE
Marble
Height: 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm) Width: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm) Depth: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) Thickness: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)
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Marble head of a figure
ca. 2500–2400/2300 BCE
Marble
Height: 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm) Width: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm) Depth: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm) Thickness: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)
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Marble female figure
ca. 2700–2500 BCE
Marble
Height: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm) Width: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm) Depth: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm) Thickness: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)
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Marble female figure
ca. 2700–2400/2300 BCE
Marble
Height: 34 1/16 in. (86.5 cm) Width: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm) Depth: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)
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Marble female figure
ca. 2500–2400/2300 BCE
Marble
Height: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm) Width: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) Depth: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) Thickness: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)
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Marble vase with lug handles
ca. 3200–2700 BCE
Marble
Height: 10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm) Width: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm) Diameter: 7 13/16 in. (19.8 cm)
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