Figurine modelling flourished in Cyprus in the Late Neolithic period and even more so during the Chalcolithic. Various types of figurines, in materials such as steatite, limestone, picrolite and clay, rendered the human figure in a purely schematic or a more naturalistic manner. This example, made of soft limestone, belongs to a group of Chalcolithic figurines which present a slight backwards tilt of the head and have deep eye sockets (perhaps originally inset with stone or shell), relief breasts, arms bent below the bosom and superficial incisions indicating the pubes and separating the legs. The figurine was found in the village of Kidasi, in the Paphos region. Its archaeological context did not permit its unequivocal association with cult activities. Nevertheless, most scholars accept that nude female figurines of this type, with pronounced anatomical details (breasts, pudenda), were most probably associated with beliefs about birth and maternity, or with rites dedicated to the ‘Mother Goddess’ in her role as a fertility deity.