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Early Cycladic Stone vessels

Mostly marble, 3200-2000 BC

Rhyta

3200-2800 BC, EC I period

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Stone models

ca EC II period

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Vessels by material

Steatite

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Marble

Including other non-steatite stones, mostly marble.

The vast majority, as seen below.

By shape

Tall cups

Most of the years 3200-2800 BC, Early Cycladic Bronze Age I period, Grotta-Pelos culture. Sometimes described as the "big rhyton".

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Kandiles

Most of the years 3200-2800 BC, Early Cycladic Bronze Age I period, Grotta-Pelos culture, but likely continue to 2300 BC (EC II period).

In Terminology of British Musem: "Stone vase, known as a kandila". In Terminology of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Kandila. In Terminology of Goulandris Museum: Cycladic collared jar (“kandila”). Sometimes "chandeliers". In Terminology of Colin Renfrew: Kandila.

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Paletes

3200-2300 BC, EC I-II period

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  Cylindrical pallete

Bowls

3200-2000 BC, EC I - EC III period

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Bowls with spout

ca 3000-2000 BC

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Chalices

Chalices, craters, cups

mostly EC II period

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Pixydies

mostly EC II period

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Spherical pixydies

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Double vessels

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Pigeons Vases

Keros-Syros culture, 2800-2300 BC (EC II period)

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Kernoi

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Frying pans

See Early Cycladic "Frying Pans"

Cretan analogies

or Cycladic influence in Crete

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Egyptian analogies

Old kingdom, 5th dynasty, ca 2510-2365 BC

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