 The Mycenaean period has not yielded sculpture of any great size . The statuary of the period consists for the most part of small terracotta figurines found at almost every Mycenaean site in mainland Greece , in tombs , in settlement debris , and occasionally in cult contexts ( Tiryns , Agios Konstantinos on Methana ) . The majority of these figurines are female and anthropomorphic or zoomorphic . The female figurines can be subdivided into three groups which were popular at different periods : the earliest are the Phi @-@ type , which look like the Greek letter phi and their arms give the upper body of the figurine a rounded shape . The Psi @-@ type looks like the letter Greek psi : these have outstretched upraised arms . The latest ( 12th century BC ) are the Tau @-@ type : these figurines look like the Greek letter tau with folded ( ? ) arms at right angles to the body . Most figurines wear a large ' polos ' hat . They are painted with stripes or zigzags in the same manner as the contemporary pottery and presumably made by the same potters . Their purpose is uncertain , but they may have served as both votive objects and toys : some are found in children 's graves but the vast majority of fragments are from domestic rubbish deposits . The presence of many of these figurines on sites where worship took place in the Archaic and Classical periods ( circa 200 below the sanctuary of Athena at Delphi , others at the temple of Aphaea on Aegina , at the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas above Epidauros and at Amyklae near Sparta ) , suggests both that many were indeed religious in nature , perhaps as votives , but also that later places of worship may well have first been used in the Mycenaean period . 
