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Euthydikos Kore, upper fragment, right profile, detail

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Euthydikos Kore, upper fragment, left profile, detail

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Euthydikos Kore, upper fragment, left profile

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Euthydikos Kore, upper fragment, from right

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Euthydikos Kore, upper fragment, frontal view, detail

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Euthydikos Kore, upper fragment, back view

Collection: Athens, Acropolis Museum
Title: Euthydikos Kore
Context: From Athens, Acropolis
Findspot: Found at Athens, Acropolis, found east of Parthenon in 1882. (Akr. 609 was found near Erechtheion in 1886 or 1887).
Summary: Statue of maiden
Object Function: Votive
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue: kore
Category: Single sculpture
Style: Late Archaic
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 490 BC - ca. 480 BC
Dimensions: Akr. 686: H. 0.589 m; Akr. 609: H. 0.41 m
Scale: Under life-size
Region: Attica
Period: Late Archaic

Subject Description: Dedicatory statue of maiden, late example of kore type. Frontal pose, characteristic archaic gesture of skirt pulled to side, here with left hand. Left leg forward. Right arm originally extended in offering. Coiffure relatively simple with emphatic central part, three long tresses fall forward over each shoulder. Ionic style of dress with himation over thin chiton, but again simply rendered. Detailed decoration added in paint, as the frieze of racing chariots on the chiton.

Form & Style: Stance and mannerism of skirt pulled hard against legs are characteristically archaic, but concern with underlying structure rather than surface pattern pushes statue into period of Early Classical development. Often compared with Blond Boy (Athens,Acropolis 689). Perhaps by same sculptor.

Date Description: Generally considered to be part of the debris from the Persian destruction of 480.

Condition: Fragmentary

Condition Description: Broken in large fragments with few chips as from single fall, but where preserved surface is fresh and shows little wear. This fragment preserves upper body including head and most of left arm, broken at waist. Another fragment, Athens, Acropolis 609, preserves lower legs and plinth, set into inscribed base. Traces of painted frieze<—>depicting chariot race decorate chiton<—>still visi

Material Description: Possibly Parian marble

Inscription: On the base, a column capital, in stoichedon: *E*U*Q*U*D*I*K*O*S [epig-rough]*O *Q*A*L*I*A*R*X*O *A*N*E*Q*E*K*E*N, "Euthydikos son of Thaliarchos dedicated it." A second dedication by Euthydikos is also known. Raubitscheck suggested it may have been set up after 480 B.C. to replace this one, probably destroyed by the Persians.

Sources Used: Brouskari 1974, 127-8; Richter 1968, 99 no. 180, figs. 565-72Raubitschek 1949, no. 56