The Concept
“I noticed this little hedgehog-shaped doll on a visit to the Cycladic antiquities gallery of the National Archaeological Museum. It wanted a copy as a birthday present for my nephew, but it wasn’t on offer in the museum shop. So I thought: ‘Why not make it myself?’”
Dora Oikonomides – Founding member of Skantzochiros
Animal-shaped vase, most likely a hedgehog
Chalandriani, Syros, Proto-Cycladic Era II, Syros-Keros civilization (2800 – 2300 BCE)
Athens, National Archaeological Museum
Department of the Collection of Prehistoric, Egyptian, Cypriot and Near Eastern Antiquities