Collection: Samos, Archaeological Museum of Samos
Title: Phileia
Context: From Samos, Sanctuary of Hera
Findspot: Excavated at Samos, Heraion, on the Sacred Way (Northeast of the Chapel) (in 1912)
Summary: Seated female statue
Object Function: Votive
Sculptor: Signed by Geneleos
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue
Category: Statuary group
Style: High Archaic
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 560 BC - ca. 550 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.87 m; Th. 0.805 m; W. (over knee) 0.405 m; W. (max. pres.) 0.445 m; Plinth: H. (left) 0.565 m; H. (right) 0.56 m; Th. 0.537 m
Scale: Life-size
Region: Sporades
Period: High Archaic
In Group: Geneleos Group

Subject Description: Phileia is a seated female figure, wearing a himation over a chiton, from the hem of which emerge her rounded feet. She rests both hands on her lap; her left hand is flat while her right hand is clenched.

Condition: Single piece

Condition Description: This remaining piece represents the lower half of Phileia and most of her throne. The throne is chipped at the back. The surface is scratched, slightly chipped, and stained.

Material Description: Whitish-gray, coarse-grained marble

Inscription: Phileia is identified by an inscription on the left chair leg: *F*I*L*E*I*A, "Phileia." On her legs is the dedicatory inscription: *H*M*A*S *E*P*O*I*H*S*E *G*E*N*E*L*E*O*S, "Geneleos made us."

Sources Used: Boardman 1978a, fig. 91; Freyer-Schauenburg 1974, 107-109 no. 58, pls. 46-47 (with previous bibliography); Richter 1968, 49-50 no. 67