Nude female idol with arms crossed: deity? 2700-2300BC. Of marble. Found on the island of Syros (the Cyclades) in Greece. The Louvre Museum in Lens.

---

Part of the exhibition "The birth of writing in the Ancient Near East"

---

Size: 3171px × 4757px
Location: Lens, France
Photo credit: © Adam Ján Figeľ / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: ancient, antique, antiquity, celestial, deity, divine, divinity, east, excavation, exposition, fecund, female, fertility, fetish, god, goddess, graven, greece, historical, history, holy, idol, idolatry, image, lens, louvre, mediterranean, mesopotamia, middle, mold, mould, nude, orient, oriental, polytheism, polytheistic, religion, sacred, saint, statue, statuette, sumer, sumerian, supreme, syre, syros, terracotta, woman