Cast of the legs of the Lyons Kore from the Acropolis, Athens
Details
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Title
Cast of the legs of the Lyons Kore from the Acropolis, Athens
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Associated place
Acropolis (find spot of original) -
Date
1st half of the 20th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
61 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1949.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.B.45.b
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Catalogue text
Athens, Acropolis Museum, inv. 269.
Found in the 1880s during excavations on the Athenian Acropolis.
See B 45a.
Female statue of the kore type wearing chiton and himation, and holding a dove. She wears a polos and her long hair is arranged in three symmetrical tresses falling on either side of her head. Traces of paint from colouring remain on the original.In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Further reading
Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
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