Towards a Corpus of Cycladic Figures

One of the ideas said to have come out of the Cycladic workshop at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is the creation of an online corpus of Cycladic figures.  The organisers of the workshop may not have been aware of these studies:

• Tsirogiannis, C., D. W. J. Gill, and C. Chippindale. 2022. "The Forger’s Tale: An insider’s account of corrupting the corpus of Cycladic figures." International Journal of Cultural Property 29: 369–85. [CUP]
• —. 2025. "A Corrupt Cycladic Corpus of Marble Figures." Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies 13: 203–33.[DOI]

We discuss the Future of the Cycladic Corpus with the following sub-divisions: An Archaeologists' Corpus; A Connoisseurs' Corpus; An Unresolved Corpus; and An Outcast Corpus. The Leonard Stern collection even has its own section: 'Learning from a recently formed private collection'. My BMCR review of the Stern collection also has a section on 'A Potentially Corrupted Corpus'.

We hope that those who have an interest in the importance of the archaeological context for these figures will be allowed to steer the project and (perhaps even more importantly) will assess whether or not it is a project worth pursuing.

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