Marble Male Cycladic Figurine in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2007

Marble male figure
Cycladic, Early Cycladic II, Dokathismata type, ca. 2400-2300 BC or later

Accession # 1972.118.103

Several features of this work are unusual. Although male figures are rare, they tend to be characterized by an attribute or activity; that is not the case in this example. His hair is clearly indicated as full and combed back. The upper body is that of a female figure. It is conceivable that the sculptor began making a woman and modified the statuette because of a change in his commission.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.