Fragment of a Statuette of a Kore

about 460 B.C.

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

19 × 15.7 cm

Status

In Museum Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-221818

The torso of this half life-size draped female figure wears a variation of the usual costume of a kore with undergarment and mantle. She wears a cloak over a dress, probably a chiton, although it is impossible to be certain due to the degraded condition of the surface. The ends of the cloak pass over both shoulders with folds arranged symmetrically down the front of the body. The undergarment is recognized under raking light by an undulating pattern of fabric in the area between the outer garment’s edges and by a faint ridge of the neckline just below the notch at the front of the neck. The type of clothing—a long himation draped over both shoulders—is a scheme seen on statues and statuettes of korai who stand with one or both forearms extended, a gesture of offering. In fact, the remnants of the right arm on the Getty’s figure suggests that it was extended. The garment folds on the right side are slightly advanced, possibly indicating an advancing right leg on the original complete statuette.Votive statuettes carved from stone and wood, modeled from clay, or molded from bronze were produced in large numbers as dedications to divinities in the many sanctuaries founded throughout t…