"The Keros Hoard - Searching for the Lost Pieces of a Puzzle" by . Sotirakopoulou

The Keros Hoard - Searching for the Lost Pieces of a Puzzle . Sotirakopoulou

Series:
Getty Publications -
Format:
Hardback
Publication date:
31 Mar 2006
ISBN:
9780892368372
Imprint:
Getty Publishing
Dimensions:
456 pages: 281 x 212 x 21mm
Illustrations:
350 colour illustrations, 78 tables, 3 maps, 1 diagrams

Categories:

Keros is a small, mountainous, and now-deserted island situated between Naxos, Amorgos, and Ios in the southeast Cyclades. Keros became widely known after a series of extensive and clandestine excavations in the 1950s and early 1960s, which concentrated on a particularly rich deposit of material at the site of Kavos, situated at its barren western extremity. These major lootings resulted in the illegal export from Greece of a large number of Early Cycladic objects - mostly fragmentary marble figurines - that flooded the international antiquities market under the general name "the Keros Hoard." The cache was said to have included at least 350 Cycladic objects and is now widely dispersed. This study features a review of the archaeological investigations on Keros; a discussion of the so-called Keros Hoard; an extensive account of the various aspects of Cycladic figurines; and a catalogue of the objects identified as coming from the Hoard. Also included are an analysis of the data derived form the Hoard, the results of the study comparing the fragments in the Museum of Cycladic Art with those discovered at Kavos during official archaeological investigations; an interpretation of the Hoard and the site at Kavos; and the results of the laboratory analyses of a representative number of samples taken from the fragments kept in the Museum of Cycladic Art and in the J. Paul Getty Museum.

PEGGY SOTIRAKOPOULOU is a curator at the Museum of Cycladic Art.

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