Inventory number
Ακρ. 593
Artist
Attic workshop
Category
Sculpture
Period
Archaic Period
Date
580-570 BC
Dimensions
Height: 1.01 m
Material
Marble from Penteli
Location
Archaic Acropolis Gallery
This Kore, known as the "Kore with the pomegranate", was found east of the Erechtheion in 1887. She is dressed in layers with three different garments. Underneath she wears a long chiton discernible only by the right sleeve which is buttoned with small buttons in relief. Over this she wears a peplos held in place with a green belt, and decorated with a painted, red meander, crosses and stars. A long epiblema completes the outfit. It falls symmetrically over the shoulders and is decorated on the border with painted meanders and crosses, and tassels rendered in relief.
The Kore holds with her right bended hand a red pomegranate and her left a green wreath. A necklace with oblong beads rendered in relief and once connected with a painted red line, decorates her neck. Her ears are adorned with triangular hanging earrings from which only the lower part is preserved. Her hair is falling on her back in a smooth mass framed by two curled locks while three more locks spill to the front and cover each breast. The absence of volume in the rendering of the body as well as the unshaped lower limbs suggest the early dating of this Kore.
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