Inventory number
Ακρ. 670
Artist
Attic workshop
Category
Sculpture
Period
Archaic Period
Date
520-510 BC
Dimensions
Height: 1.15 m
Material
Marble from Paros
Location
Archaic Acropolis Gallery
She was discovered in 1886 in the so-called "Korai Pit" northwest of the Erechtheion.
The Kore with the slanting eyes and the intense smile is not one of the most characteristic Korai found on the Acropolis. Unlike the rest of the Korai she is dressed in only a chiton tighten around the waist with a belt that forms rich folds and flows to her legs. The chiton has long sleeves that are secured with seven buttons rendered in relief and is decorated with painted rosettes. The Kore with her left hand pulls aside her chiton’s central fold which is decorated with light-coloured meanders on a dark blue background, today lost. The same blue colour was used in bands around the neckline and the diagonal folds near the chiton’s hem. In her right hand, which was sculpted from a separate piece of marble, the Kore would have held her offering to the goddess. Her hair falls on her back in soft waves and four long, curled locks frame each side of her face and spill to the front. The red colour still visible today probably constituted the undercoat over which the final brown hue was applied.
On her head she wears a stephane with painted palmettes spirals and lotus flowers, while added metal ornaments, perhaps lotus buds, would have been secured in the holes drilled on the upper surface of the stephane. Her ears are adorned with circular earrings decorated with rosettes and her left wrist covers a bracelet in the form of a snake rendered in relief. Traces of red colour can be seen on her lips and irises while black paint was used to accentuate the contour of her eyes.
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