Grave find from the Grotta Pelos phase (Missouri)

The grave find from the Grotta Pelos phase in the Museum of Art and Archeology at the University of Missouri in Columbia (Missouri) contains a female Cycladic idol of the Plastiras type (inventory number 64.67.3) and two violin idols (inventory number 64.67.1 and 2) . Pat Getz-Preziosi described the find with unknown origin in her dissertation in 1972 and assigned it to the so-called Missouri sculptor of the early Cycladic Grotta-Pelos phase . It was shown at the exhibition Art and Culture of the Cyclades Islands in the 3rd millennium BC. At the Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe .

description

The whitish marble, with its somewhat weathered surface and the brown sintered stains, shows that all three idols agree. The strong similarities of the outline contours, especially in the area of the shoulders and upper arms, as well as the incision of the pubic triangle are regarded as references to the same sculptor.

Violin idol (inventory number 64.67.1)

The angular upper body of the 7.6 cm high idol is connected to the round lower body by a narrower intermediate piece with straight edges. A V-shaped neckline, three abdominal folds and a large pubic triangle with an indicated pubic area are incised. The idol is broken in the lowest hop line.

Violin idol (inventory number 64.67.2)

Differences compared to the Idol 64.67.1 are the difference in height of 8.9 cm and a break at the neck in the shoulder line. There are hardly any differences in the design.

Female idol with hands in front of her body (inventory number 64.67.3)

The faceless idol 14.1 cm high is more schematized than the typical Plastiras type. In outline, it is similar to the four idols found by Doumas in Plastiras on Paros .

Origin and classification

The idols are said to come from a grave of unknown origin. The juxtaposition of different, almost opposing idol forms has been known in the Cyclades since the Neolithic , as the finds of the naturalistic Fat Woman from Saliagos and a highly schematized violin idol from the island of Saliagos show. The find situation of violin and plastiras idol is known from grave 20 near Akrotiri on Naxos.

Preziosi has also ascribed an unpublished statuette in the Kanellopoulos Museum in Athens and the female torso in the Academic Art Museum Bonn (inventory number B 46) to the sculptor . Since Naxos is assumed to be the place of origin for these idols , it is assumed that the sculptor also came from the island.

literature

Jürgen Thimme (Hrsg.): Art and culture of the Cyclades islands in the 3rd millennium before Christ . CF Müller, Karlsruhe, 1976, ISBN 3-7880-9568-7 , pp. 570 No. 45, 46, 73 .
Pat Getz-Preziosi : Early Cycladic sculpture. An introduction . J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994, ISBN 0-89236-220-0 , pp. 20-21 .

Individual evidence

↑ Jürgen Thimme (ed.): Art and culture of the Cyclades islands in the 3rd millennium BC Chr. CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1976, ISBN 3-7880-9568-7 , No. 45, 46, 73
↑ Werner Ekschmitt : The Cyclades. Bronze Age, Geometric and Archaic Age . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1533-3 , pp. 15-17
↑ Jörg Rambach: Cyclades I, The Early Bronze Age - Grave and Settlement Findings. Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7749-2831-2 , plate 91

[1] Jürgen Thimme (ed.): Art and culture of the Cyclades islands in the 3rd millennium BC Chr. CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1976, ISBN 3-7880-9568-7 , No. 45, 46, 73

[2] Werner Ekschmitt : The Cyclades. Bronze Age, Geometric and Archaic Age . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1533-3 , pp. 15-17

[3] Jörg Rambach: Cyclades I, The Early Bronze Age - Grave and Settlement Findings. Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7749-2831-2 , plate 91