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| GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A KORE She wears a diadem that begins at the back of the head and runs to the forehead in three flat, overlapping double ears of grain. Under the diadem the slightly wavy hair is combed backwards. A corkscrew curl on either side of the neck and a small curl in front of the right ear. Oval face, almost pointed chin. Broad eyelids frame the almond-shaped eyes. A blossom was orignally located in the centre of the diadem above the forehead. A small crack on the top of the head. Restorations to the lips and the left eyebrow. Probably from a seated statue which was placed in a niche. The planar treatment of the forehead and cheeks with the special emphasis placed on the eyebrows and lids, as well as the compact chin are similar to the head of an athlete in Boston, inv.-no. 51.1404, Cat. Boston - 1976, 26, no. 32 with ill. These stylistic features suggest a date for the head between the pediment figures of the temple of Zeus in Olympia and those of the Parthenon. Cf. Knell - 1990, 83 ill. 119 and the head of a goddess from the East pediment of the Parthenon, Agora-Museum, Athens, inv.-no. S 2094, see Fuchs - 1979, 559, ill. 671; Athenian Agora - 1976, 191. Ex Swiss private collection. Athens, ca. 460-440 BC H. 8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) CBD65 $45,000 Sales |
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