The ephorate of Cycladic antiquities, published in the book The Sculptors of the Cyclades: Identity and Tradition in the Third Millennium BC (1987), by the scholar of Cycladic sculpture Pat Gets Preziosi, finally discovered the double figurine, which was repatriated to Greece from the United States after the events. Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office. Although the first estimates of archaeologists indicated that the figurine appeared for the first time, in the end it turned out to be in the famous book of a scientist who had access to private collections. The only entries accompanying a bibliographic reference are “private collection” and “of unknown provenance”.

figurine, according to EFA Cyclades notification sent to “K”, belongs to a particularly rare type, which still has four known specimens, including those from private collections: The figurine, which was first exhibited in the 1970s and 1980s at the Vadis Museum in Karlsruhe, at the Art and Culture of the Cyclades exhibition. , where the place of origin is given as Paros and the time of acquisition as 1860. At the same exhibition, a statuette from a private collection in Copenhagen was shown with the place of origin given as Io. The Museum of Cycladic Art exhibits a similar figurine from the Stern collection and fragments of the figurine (head and part of the legs on it) belonging to the museum’s collection.

The figurine will be carefully studied “in order to document its authenticity and possible origin,” the ephorate notes, and will add to the collection of the Museum of Cycladic Culture under construction in Naxos.