the Cyclades made their way to Crete and also to the mainland. Most of the statuettes are naked female figurines with their arms crossed over the abdomen, and they are generally not designed to stand erect. The eyes as well as the hair were represented by painting. The tombs of the Cyclades have also yielded rectangular marble palettes and lumps of red matter for coloring, as well as engraved hollowed-out bones containing blue paint. A large group of marble idols have been found showing a squatting motif, and figures of men are found from an early date, usually figures of musicians such as the harpist or a standing flutist. Music was an element in the funeral rites, and even the dead were not to be deprived of it, which is why these statuettes were buried with the dead, perhaps with the id
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