Inventory number
Ακρ. 673
Artist
Attic workshop
Category
Sculpture
Period
Archaic Period
Date
520-510 BC
Dimensions
Height: 0.91 m
Material
Marble from Paros
Location
Archaic Acropolis Gallery
The Kore was discovered in 1886 in the so-called "Korai Pit" northwest of the Erechtheion. She was reassembled from many fragments but a big part of the statue’s extremities has been lost.
She wears a long chiton and over it a short himation that falls off her shoulders symmetrically and is secured over her right shoulder and arm with relief buttons. The upper part of the chiton might have been originally blue. Her garments are decorated with bands of meanders, crosses and dots, once rendered with red, yellow and blue paint, but today oxidised.
Her posture is the typical one of the Korai: with her right hand, carved from a separate piece of marble, she would have held her offering to the goddess while with her left she was likely pulling aside her chiton to facilitate her step.
Her wavy hair fall on her back while four curls frame each side of her face and spill to the front. Separately carved locks of hair would have been used as extensions. On her head the Kore wears a stephane decorated with a painted meander, possibly painted blue and red. The upper surface of the stephane is adorned with metal rods once belonging to gold plated rays or blossoms. The bronze stem projecting from the top of her head could be a meniskos. The reddish colour we see today perhaps constitutes the undercoat over which the final hue of the hair was applied. The Kore’s eyes retain reddish-brown irises, black contour, pupils and eyebrows. Finally, her ears are decorated by circular earrings with painted rosettes.
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