Of the people that lived in the Cyclades islands between 2600 and 1100 b.c.  very few works were left except some modest stone graves.

Among other things that they deposit with the dead, only some are notable: the numerous idols in marble impressive. Almost all articles represented a naked woman on foot and with the arms crossed in the chest, maybe a fertility goddess.

They present a particular configuration that remembers the angle and abstract figures of the primitive sculpture: the body flattened and cuniform, the stong neck in the shape of a column, the oval face reduced to a big nose. Within this narrowly defined and stable type, Cycladic idols have very variable shapes and sizes, from a few centimetres to full size.