Collection: Samos, Archaeological Museum of Samos
Title: Fragmentary kore
Context: From Samos, Sanctuary of Hera
Findspot: Excavated at Samos, Heraion
Summary: Standing female figure wearing a chiton and holding her skirt to her right side
Object Function: Votive
Sculptor: Suggested attribution to Geneleos
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue: kore
Category: Statuary group
Style: High Archaic
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 560 BC - ca. 550 BC
Dimensions: A: H. 0.39 m. B: H. 0.22 m; W. 0.22 m. C: H. 0.45 m; W. 0.22 m
Scale: Life-size
Region: Sporades
Period: High Archaic
In Group: Geneleos Group

Condition: Fragmentary

Condition Description: A: Three joining fragments comprising the left thigh. B: Single fragment of a lower hem. C: Single fragment of the right shoulder, showing details of the chiton sleeve. D: Single fragment of the left upper arm.

Material Description: Whitish-gray, coarse-grained marble

Sources Used: Freyer-Schauenburg 1974, 110-13 no. 60 A-D, pls. 47-48

Other Bibliography: Schmidt 1971, 34 ff., pls. 22.2-3, 23.3-4; Buschor 1934-61, 1.15