Archaeological surveys have shown that the first figures of this type were established in Athens in 4. BC But still the question of the causes of the emergence and rapid spread of this new genre of small plastic remains unanswered. The opinion, issued in the 19. that they are the first purely decorative objects of Greek antiquity, in all probability, wrong. But what was really their function? What explains the incredible development of this sculpture and its spread throughout Europe in the ancient era of Hellenism? These are questions that occupy researchers to this day. Some see in the graceful dancers of nymphs and maenads and claim that they were votive in nature and focused on Pan and Dionysus, while the fixed figures associated with the cult of Aphrodite. Others believe that these statues were an element of funerary rituals.
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