Kore figurine

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 10726

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Coroplastic

Period

Archaic Period

Date

500-480 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.207 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 24, Νο 5

Description
Bibliography

Kore figurine found during one of the Acropolis excavation campaigns. The Kore stands frontally and is draped in red chiton over which her white himation is worn obliquely. A tall stephane adorns her head possibly coupled with a head veil. Her hair around the forehead forms locks rendered in relief. The Kore’s right arm is bent at the elbow beneath her bosom holding a small object, a fruit or a flower bud, whereas with her left arm she holds the edge of her chiton.

Preserved are the white slip and black paint.

Casson, S., Brooke, D., Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum. Sculpture and Architectural Fragments, with a section upon the Terracottas, II, Cambridge, 1921, σελ. 351, αρ.κατ. 31
Μπρούσκαρη, Μ., Μουσείον Ακροπόλεως. Περιγραφικός κατάλογος, Αθήνα, 1974, σελ. 35-36, εικ. 36
Nicholls, R., «Two Groups of Archaic Attic Terracottas», στο D.C. Kurtz, B. Sparkes (επιμ.), The Eye of Greece. Studies in the Art of Athens, Cambridge, 1982, σελ. 109, αρ.κατ. C1:14
Wagner, C., Dedication Practices on the Athenian Acropolis, 8th to 4th centuries BC, University of Oxford, 1997, σελ. 171 υποσημ. 6