Object: S 2476
Inventory Number:   S 2476
Section Number:   ΒΓ 1447
Title:   Head of Kore
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken away at neck. Nose and mouth damaged.
Hair, bound in stephane, runs in waves around face and in long zigzags down the back (three strands cross shoulder). Disk earrings. Bulging eyes, high cheekbones.
Statue was repaired (post persian) with lead dowel running from back to neck and on underside of neck. Lower edge of hairline also reworked.
Parian marble.
Context:   Crossroads Enclosure, layer 10.
Notebook Page:   1754, 1768
Negatives:   Leica, 87-129, 87-130, 87-131, 87-132, 87-133, color slide
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.20; W. 0.14; Th. 0.12
Material:   Marble (Parian)
Chronology:   5th c. B.C.
Date:   17-20 August 1971, 3 April-5 May 1972
Section:   ΒΓ
Grid:   J 5
Deposit:   J 5:2
Period:   Archaic
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 8, 129.
    Guide (1990), p. 237.
    Guide (1976), p. 238, fig. 123.
    Hesperia 42 (1973), p. 400, pl. 74 a-c.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 42 (1973)
Publication: Museum Guide (2014)
Images (54)
Deposit: J 5:2
Card: S 2476