The Bronze Age Cycladic culture flourished from ca. 3000 BCE to ca. 1000 BCE in the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea. The best known art objects that have survived from this culture are marble figures, usually full-length females with arms folded across their abdomens. Many of these are known, although most were removed illegally from their archaeological contexts, and many examples in public and private collections are forgeries. There is evidence that the figures were originally brightly painted. Web resources here and here.

Early Cycladic female figure. Marble. Ca. 2700–2300 BCE. British Museum, London.