Cycladic female statuette

Statuetta femminile cicladica
Type: 
Sculpture
Year: 
3rd millennium B.C.
Material and technique: 
Naxian marble
Origin: 
Gift from L. Pollak
Inventory: 
Inv. MB 71

Small marble idol from the Cyclades Islands, a rare piece given to Barracco by Ludwig Pollak, a learned adviser of Barracco’s and the first director of the museum after the collector’s death.

The hall

Room 6 displays numerous original Greek reliefs and sculptures, some votive works and others funerary.