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Clay figurines --- Terra-cotta figurines --- Figurines, Prehistoric --- Figurines d'argile --- Figurines de terre cuite --- Figurines préhistoriques --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Guides, manuels, etc. --- Figurines, Prehistoric. --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Figurines préhistoriques

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"The Chalcolithic period in Cyprus has been known since Porphyrios Dikaios' excavations at Erimi in the 1930s and through the appearance in the antiquities market of illicitly acquired anthropomorphic cruciform figures, often manufactured from picrolite, a soft blue-green stone. The excavations of the settlement and cemetery at Souskiou Laona reported on in this volume paint a very different picture of life on the island during the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. Burial practices at other known sites are generally single inhumations in intramural pit graves, only rarely equipped with artefacts. At Souskiou, multiple inhumations were interred in deep rock-cut tombs clustered in extra-mural cemeteries. Although the sites were also subjected to extensive looting, excavations have revealed complex multi-stage burial practices with arrangements of disarticulated and articulated burials accompanied by a rich variety of grave goods. Chief among these are a multitude of cruciform figurines and pendants. This unusual treatment of the dead, which has not been recorded elsewhere in Cyprus, shifts the focus from the individual to the communal, and provides evidence for significant changes involving kinship group links to common ancestors. Excavations at the Laona settlement have furnished evidence suggesting that it functioned as a specialised centre for the procurement and manufacture of picrolite during its early phase. The subsequent decline of picrolite production and the earliest known occurrence of new types of ornaments, such as faience beads and copper spiral pendants, attest to important changes involving the transformation of personal and social identities during the first centuries of the 3rd millennium BC, a topic that forms a central theme of this final report on the site"--

Figurines, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric figurines --- Statuettes, Prehistoric --- Sculpture, Prehistoric

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Gravettian culture --- Figurines, Prehistoric --- Gravettien --- Figurines préhistoriques

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Why did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices involving male nudity in the Aegean had a complicated origin in prehistory. Murray offers a close analysis of the earliest male nudes from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, which mostly take the form of small bronze votive figurines deposited in rural sanctuaries. Datable to the end of the second millennium BCE, these figurines, she argues, enlighten the ritual and material contexts in which nude athletics originated, complicating the rationalizing accounts present in the earliest textual evidence for such practices. Murray's book breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.

Male nude in art. --- Bronze figurines, Renaissance. --- Bronze figurines, Prehistoric --- Votive offerings, Prehistoric --- Iron age

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Terra-cotta figurines, Greek --- Votive offerings --- Greeks --- Figurines de terre cuite grecques --- Ex-voto --- Grecs --- Taranto (Italy) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Antiquités --- Antiquities --- Taranto (Italy) - Antiquities --- Terra-cotta figurines, Hellenistic --- Clay figurines --- Ethnology --- Mediterranean race --- Figurines, Clay --- Figurines --- Hellenistic terra-cotta figurines --- Tarentum (Italy) --- Taras (Italy) --- Taranto, Italy (City) --- Tarent (Italy) --- ex-voto --- époque archaïque --- figurine de terre cuite --- production artisanale --- coroplathie --- archéologie