- Maps and representations of towns - this links to the recent Grayson Perry exhibition and also the images I saw in North Africa
- Funerary statues "a typical Cyrenaican phenomenon. They were certainly made locally (ie Libya), with small differences in shape and style on account of the various artistic influences, starting from the early 5th century BC up to Roman times. Their meaning is certainly religious; they were all found near tombs, either in niches or on bases (sometimes with inscriptions). They do not represent the dead people buried in the tombs, but a funerary divinity, may be Persephone, the Goddess of the Underworld, or the personification of the soul, which is invisible and this is the reason why in the first examples, the face was not sculptured"
I missed the Yorkshire Sculpture Park exhibition of Jaume Plensa recently but a friend sent me some information and this seems to 'fit' with the above. Jaume Plensa's website Also the clay heads I saw at The Ashmolean Heracles to Alexander the Great Exhibition last year.
This is echoed by photographs that I took in Tripoli:
A third strand might be mosaics and bits and pieces .... anyway this is all generating some good ideas.
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