Cycladic Figurine

This rare figurine depicts a ‘hunter-warrior’ type characterised by the presence of a belt and baldric (belt worn over the shoulder to hold a weapon). This is the first sculpture of its kind to enter a UK public collection and there are only three others known in the world. The British Museum holds the leading collection of Cycladic figurines in the country. The people of the Aegean islands known as the Cyclades began to produce objects in the early Greek Bronze Age. The museum has a drawing of a figurine of this type as well as female Cycladic figurines which can be linked stylistically with this male figure.