FRAGMENT OF A DRAPED FEMALE FIGURE (KORE)
Artist Baumann & Beckmann (cast maker) Athens, 19-20th century
Date early 20th century (plaster cast), 490-480 BC (original)
Object type plaster cast Medium, technique plaster
Dimensions 68 x 37 x 37 cm Inventory number Ag.354
Collection Classical Antiquites - Plaster casts
On view Star Fortress (Komárom), The Archaic Period of Greek Sculpture (650–480 BC): Kore and Kouros Figures, Gallery II
The original kore was carved of expensive Parian marble, while its column-shaped base was made of cheaper, Pentelic marble quarried near Athens. The inscription engraved on the base speaks for the statue: “(I) was offered by Euthydikos, the son of Taliarchos.” This is one of the latest Archaic kore statues, created in the times of the Persian Wars, at the very end of the Archaic period. Here, the elaborate decoration of the drapery is gone, and the simplicity of modelling already points to the artworks of the early Classical period. The upper half of the plaster cast is lost.
References
Hekler, Antal, Az antik gipszgyüjtemény I-II., Budapest, 1919-1920, 1923, no. no. 60.
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