Schematic violin-shaped goddess figure, Early Cycladic I (3000-2800 BC). Made of white marble, it is 18.5cm high. 

The islanders of the Cyclades believed in an afterlife and these statuettes were part of the funerary material accompanying the deceased. The female shape symbolizes the protective figure,  nature,  life, death and regeneration.

Former Jouvenel collection, 1900, acquired by Josef Mueller before 1939. Musée Barbier-Mueller, photo Studio Ferrazzini Bouchet.

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