• Torso of poros stone female statue



Torso of poros stone female statue
Torso of poros stone female statue
Torso of poros stone female statue

Torso of poros stone female statue

Γ47
Stone (Poros stone)
Head and torso preserved, worn surface.
Max. Height: 58 cm.Max. Length: 42 cm.
Eleutherna
West slope, hill of the Acropolis
Early Archaic period:
620-610 BC:
Gallery:
XXVI
Exhibition thematic unit:
Sculpture. Archaic period (7th-6th c. BC). Classical period (5th-4th c. BC)
Description
Only the upper part of this female statue is preserved. It is made of limestone, like many of the works of early Cretan sculpture carved in the round, at a time when Cretan artists were creating the earliest monumental sculptures in Greece. The figure, probably an enthroned goddess or a seated woman, is depicted frontally. She has the typical "Daedalic" hairstyle, resembling a wig. She is wearing a chiton (tunic) decorated with horizontal bands of relief rosettes and a mantle over the shoulders. Her face is modelled in the "Daedalic" style of the period, with strongly stressed eyes, nose and lips.
Bibliography:
Joubin A., “Une statue Crétoise Archaique”, Revue Archéologique 21 (1893), 10-20. Homann-Wedeking E., Die Anfage der griechische Grossplastik, Berlin, 1950. Adams L., Orientalizing Sculpture in Soft Limestone from Crete and mainland Greece, British Archaeological Reports Supplement Series 42, Oxford, 1978. Mandalaki S. (ed.), “Δαίδαλος, στα ίχνη του μυθικού τεχνίτη. Κατάλογος έκθεσης 10 Μαΐου 2019-1 Μαρτίου 2020”, Heraklion, 2019, 246.
Author:
S. P.


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