The Cyclades and western Anatolia during the 3rd millennium B.C.
An archaeological exhibition in the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul (May 23 – August 20, 2011)
The Museum of Cycladic Art in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and the Sakip Sabanci Museum organize in Istanbul an archaeological exhibition entitled: Across-The Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd millennium B.C. The exhibition, which will be launched on May 23rd 2011 at the Sakip Sabanci Museum on the Bosporus, includes 68 archaeological objects from the two Greek Museums (35 and 33 respectively).
Exhibits include the key types of marble Cycladic figurines, well-known for the minimalism and simplicity of their form; marble vases and other artworks; as well as samples of metal (bronze) objects (tools and daggers). They also encompass clay vases such as the well-known “frying pans” with incised decoration, “aryballoi”, craterisks, beak-spouted jugs etc.
From the Western Asia Minor, antiquities come from the Archaeological Museums of Istanbul, Izmir, Dorylaion (Eski Sehir), Kutahya etc. They are spade-shaped figurines (very similar to violin-shaped ones), the head of a Cycladic figurine from Miletus, clay vases and metal weapons and jewels that illuminate both affinities and differences between Cycladic artworks and objects from the Asia Minor coast – particularly as the coastal Asia Minor zone merges with the inland. In the first millennium of the Bronze Age (3200 – 2000 B.C.), a clear division is apparent ca. 2600/2500 B.C., with changes stemming from the greater exploitation of metals, the more intense use of the wheel etc.
The exhibition is divided into several units, which also constitute the main chapters of the exhibition catalogue: an introduction with an overview of the situation prior to the beginning of the Early Bronze Age, a unit examining technologies (pottery, metallurgy, sculpture), units on ideology (burial customs etc), trade and relations.
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