This statue is one of the few known intact monumental sculptures surviving from the Cyclades. There is another similar statue (1.48 m.) located in the National Archeological Museum in Athens as well as four heads which must’ve belonged to statues of a similar size. All these statues display traits of the canonical type with small differences like modeled ears. The canonical type is called so because it displays morphological canons and artistic conventions, such as the folded arms above the abdomen (with left over right), slightly flexed knees, backward tilt of the head and slanting feet. These statues would have also been decorated with colors. The function of Cycladic "statues" is enigmatic. However, their size rather precludes their use as grave goods. Although any interpretation is inevitably speculative, some scholars consider that these works were cult statues or effigies of one or more female divinities. If the suggestion is true, then these large Cycladic sculptures are the first monumental images of deities in the Aegean.
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