Hand of a Kore holding a fruit

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 372

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Sculpture

Period

Archaic Period

Date

6th cent. BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.13 m

Material

Marble from Paros

Location

First Floor Case 12, Νο 6

Description
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Part of a Kore's hand found on the Acropolis mended of two fragments. The index finger which was made separately due to some restoration in antiquity, is missing.

The rendering is rather careless. The hand holds a fruit, perhaps an apple or quince, offered to Athena by the Kore. To what end the big drill was opened in the fruit’s upper surface remains unknown.

Langlotz, E., Schuchhardt, W., Schrader, H., Die archaischen Marmorbildwerke der Akropolis, Frankfurt am Main, 1939, σελ. 166, εικ. 146, αρ. κατ. 223