Was there ever such a thing as Minoan monumental statuary? There is no direct evidence. The terracotta figures from Kea (see below, p. 218), as much as 1.6 m tall, have no real Cretan precursors: the largest Protopalatial figurines, from Petsophas and Sklaverochori, are fragmentary and hardly surpass 70 cm, while the mould for a life-size bronze hand from Phaistos is difficult to interpret (see above, p. 112). Evans believed that the bronze hairlocks from the palace of Knossos formed part of the headdress of a colossal wooden statue; it has since been shown that in fact they most likely belong to rather small wooden figurines (R. Hägg, AA 1983, 543–9). The discovery at Archanes (Anemospilia) of large terracotta feet has nevertheless revived the debate: are these simply votive feet, as known from other examples on Crete and Kea, or should we see them as supports intended to slot into a wooden statue (xoanon) that has since decayed?.