#spedos

[ridiculouspickles]

‘The Eternal Dance’ When ppl with bad hygiene habits can’t keep their fingers away from their ‘rear’ while handling hot peppers.

[asirliksanat]

Üç Kişi (m.ö. 27.yy.), mermer: Naxos, Kiklad Adaları, Yunanistan

[skinrol]

[czudej]

A CYCLADIC MARBLE HEAD ATTRIBUTED TO THE SCHUSTER SCULPTOR, EARLY CYCLADIC II, LATE SPEDOS TO DOKATHISMATA VARIETY, CIRCA 2400 BCE. With a lyre-shaped head angled backwards, aquiline nose, and a crescent-shaped ridge at the rear of the head 7.7 cm / 3 inches high. ID201603 Private Collection, UK -- Gabriele Beveridge & Neolithic Idols (10,000 - 2000 BCE), CHEWDAY’S, Frieze London, 2016

[kutxx]

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Group of three figurines (Spedos type)

2700-2500 B.C., marble, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany, 

[honeybeamm]

[mini-girlz]

A CYCLADIC MARBLE RECLINING FEMALE FIGURE 

EARLY SPEDOS VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2600-2500 B.C. 

13 1/8 in. (33.5 cm.) high 

Sculpted with a rounded lyre-shaped head, with broad cheeks, the chin slightly pointed, the slender nose well centred, with a short neck and narrow gently-sloping shoulders, the arms folded right below left beneath the prominent breasts, with a slightly rounded midsection, the pubic area depressed and framed by the angled tops of the thighs and a concave curve above, the legs divided by a deep cleft, the feet angled down and slightly concave on their soles, the back divided by a deep cleft that extends along the spine as a shallow groove to below the shoulders, oblique grooves indicating lower neck and inner shoulders, retaining a pigment 'ghost' for a band across the top of the forehead.

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