The kore of Phile by the sculptor Phaidimos Find-spot: 'a cemetery at Vourva' Athens, National Museum 81. Inscription: '... set me up as a monument, beautiful to behold, of his daughter Phile; and Phaidimos made me'. References Jeffery, L.H. 1962. The inscribed gravestones of archaic Attica. Annual of the British School at Athens 57: 137, no. 44 ('c. 550-540?'). Richter, Gisela M.A. 1968. Korai: archaic Greek maidens. A study of the development of the Kore type in Greek sculpture (London: Phaidon Press), 58-59, figs. 284-85, no. 91 ('about 540 BC').
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