Marble male figure

Unknown

2400–2300 BCE or later · Marble · Greek and Roman Art

Male figures are rare in Cycladic art. Even less common are examples like this one that exhibit both male and female features. The carved hair (usually painted on female statuettes) and pronounced genitalia are characteristically male, but the artist followed the same overall form used for contemporary female representations, including the clearly defined breasts. Figures of ambiguous gender are found in Aegean sculpture as early as the fifth millennium bce, but their meaning is unknown.

Artist

Unknown

Date

2400–2300 BCE or later

Medium

Marble

Culture

Cycladic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971