Aulos player (NAMA 3910)
The statuette of an aulos player in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NAMA, inventory number Π 3910) belongs to the group of so-called Cycladic idols of early Cycladic art and was made between the 28th and 23rd centuries BC. Dated.
It is a marble statuette depicting a playing aulet in a standing position. He holds his instrument with both hands. The nose is the only sculpted feature of the face. The aulos player was found together with the statuette of a harp player and two female canonical idols in a grave on the Cycladic island of Keros .
literature
- Ulrich Köhler : Prehistoric things from the Greek islands. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologische Institut, Athenische Department 9, 1884, p. 156 plate 5 ( online , illustration ).
- Nikolaos Kaltsas : The National Archaeological Museum . Ed .: EFG Eurobank Ergasias SA / Latsis Foundation . OLKOS, 2007, ISBN 978-960-89339-2-7 , pp. 76 ( online ).