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EARLY MINOAN FIGURINES IN THE
GIAMALAKIS COLLECTION
Neolithic Figurines
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22 KEITH BRANIGAN
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FIG. I. UNPUBLISHED EARLY MINOAN FIGURINES IN THE GIAMALAKIS COLLECTION. Scale 1:2.
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MINOAN FIGURINES IN THE GIAMALAKIS COLLECTION 23
Finally, I illustrate another bone or ivory figurine in the Giamalakis Collection which does
not fall into any of the Type Groups previously identified. (FIG. ih.) It appears to be a true hybrid.
The head is spade-shaped and has a central nose-ridge like the Trapeza type, but the eyes are
indicated on this example-a feature never found on Trapeza figurines. The eyes and the small
squarish body with narrow shoulders and arms folded across the waist suggest a relationship
with the Siva type. Below the waist, however, there is no indication of the legs, but rather what
appears to be a full length dress as worn by Early Minoan female figurines with arms raised to
the breasts.9 This small figure serves to remind us that although we may be able to identify a
dozen or more distinctive figurine types in Early Bronze Age Crete, there are many mongrels
which we cannot fit into our neat typological classifications, and these are as much a reflection
of Minoan invention and individuality as are the Koumasa, Ay. Onouphrios, and other indigenous
figurine types we have been discussing.
KEITH BRANIGAN
9 cf. Sb. Xanthoudides, he Vaulted T ombs of Mesara (London, 124) p1. iv. 15j, pi. xxi. 128-Q
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