Collection: Samos, Archaeological Museum of Samos
Title: Torso of kore
Context: From Samos, Sanctuary of Hera
Findspot: Excavated at Samos, Heraion (found in 1926)
Summary: Standing female figure with left foot slightly advanced
Object Function: Votive?
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue: kore
Category: Separated fragments
Style: High Archaic
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 550 BC
Dimensions: H. 1.51 m; H. (plinth) 0.06 m
Scale: Life-size
Region: Sporades
Period: High Archaic

Subject Description: A standing female figure, with left foot very slightly advanced, wears a belted, button-sleeve chiton and himation over her shoulders, which extends nearly to her feet in the back. She holds both hands at her sides, and clutches a portion of her skirt in her right hand, thus pulling the fabric in a broad loop sharply to the right.

Condition: Intact

Condition Description: Comprised of two large and several small joining fragments; missing neck and head, left shoulder, and some of the lower right hem. Otherwise chipped and stained.

Material Description: Whitish-gray, coarse-grained marble

Sources Used: Freyer-Schauenburg 1974, 38-40 no. 16, pl. 9

Other Bibliography: Tuchelt 1970, 61, 63, 69, 84; Richter 1968, 50 no. 69, figs. 225-27; L. Borelli in EAA, 6 (1965) 1096, fig. 1214 s.v. Samos; Himmelmann 1965, 27; Alscher 1954-63, 2.1, 149, 162; Lippold 1950, 57 n. 5; E. Buschor in Rodenwaldt 1930, 37, pl. 7; Buschor 1934-61, 2.32, figs. 112-14; 5.86, 88