Inventory number
Ακρ. 669
Artist
Attic workshop
Category
Sculpture
Period
Archaic Period
Date
Around 530 BC
Dimensions
Height: 1.8 m
Material
Marble from Paros
Location
Archaic Acropolis Gallery
The Kore survives in two parts. The upper part was found east of the Erechtheion in 1887 and was reassembled from five fragments, while the lower part was reassembled out of eight pieces.
The Kore is clad in a chiton with sleeves secured by small relief buttons. Over her chiton she wears a short himation which passes obliquely under her left arm while secured on the right with small added buttons, today lost. On her head she has a stephane decorated with added metal ornaments. Her necklace and earrings were also made out of metal and inserted into the holes that survive on her neck and earlobes. The Kore's features were once highlighted with colour from which only the brown contour of the eyes has survived>.
Her wavy hair falls on her back and three long, curls frame each side of her face and spill to the front. The small holes just below her left breast were probably drilled for the attachment of separately carved locks of hair while the purpose of the two small holes behind the left arm remains unexplained. The hair retains here and there traces of red colour which probably constituted the undercoat over which the final hue was applied. The remnants of a bronze stem on the top of her head could be from a meniskos, although many scholars believe that this stem supported the metal crest of a helmet. This last theory is further supported by the fact that the top of the Kore's head was not sculpted in detail. In that case the figure depicted here could be the goddess Athena.
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