Cast of Kore 675 from the Acropolis, Athens
On display
Details
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Title
Cast of Kore 675 from the Acropolis, Athens
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Associated place
Acropolis (find spot of original) -
Date
early 20th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
56 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.B.53
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Catalogue text
Athens, Acropolis Museum, inv. 675.
Head found in 1886 in a pit east of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, the body in 1888, south of the temple.
Small statue of young woman in the style of a kore, dressed in chiton and mantle. The elaborate coiffure of long hair, falling in tresses on either side of the head, is topped by a crown. She wears earrings. Traces of paint 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)
