Late Geometric Period: 800-700 B.C.E. Human and animal figures are found in sculpture of the late Geometric period, often in either a funerary context or as dedications made at Panhellenic sanctuaries at Olympia and Delphi. Elegant ivory figures are known, such as an Attic model from the Kerameikos cemetery of about 720 B.C.E., which modifies rounder, fatter Eastern prototypes. Small bronze images have been found, which sometimes echo the style of Geometric vase painting in their elongation and stylized proportions, such as a horse dedications found at Olympia, or various warrior figures. As may be the case with Geometric painting, the impact of myth is felt in some of these figurines; encounters between male figures and monsters such as a centaur or the minotaur are known. Metalwork of a different kind also existed during this period, namely bronze tripods (three-legged cauldrons) dedicated...