Kore Find-spot: found in 1887 on the east side of the Erechtheion. Akropolis Museum, no. 619. Naxian marble. H. 1.43 m Comments Kore originally held a round object. Dress: chiton and a short Ionic himation. Hurwit suggests a Naxian sculptor: either based in Attica working for Athenian patrons, or selling completed statues to Athenian patrons from Naxos. Dating in the period '575-550' (Hurwit) '575-550' (Richter) References Dickins, Guy. 1912. Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 150 ff, no. 619. Hurwit, Jeffrey M. 1999. The Athenian acropolis: history, mythology, and archaeology from the Neolithic era to the present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 104 (and n.22). Payne, Humfry Gilbert Garth, and Gerard Mackworth Young. 1936. Archaic marble sculpture from the Acropolis (London), 9, pl. 20. Richter, Gisela M.A. 1968. Korai: archaic Greek maidens. A study of the development of the Kore type in Greek sculpture (London: Phaidon Press), 47, figs. 194-97, no. 58.
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