Kore Phrasikleia

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The Kore Phrasikleia in the National Museum in Athens

The Kore Phrasikleia is an archaic Koren statue by the artist Aristion of Paros and was built between 550 and 540 BC. Created. She stood on a grave near the Greek town of Myrrhinous in Attica . Because of its extraordinarily good state of preservation, it is one of the most important archaic works of art.

discovery

Michel Fourmont, who traveled to Greece from 1729 to 1730 , reported on a block of marble with inscriptions that was installed in the Panagia church in Merenda . The inscription had been made illegible before it was used in the church, but could be reconstructed.

Front inscription in epigram form :

σε̑μα Φρασικλείας

κόρε κεκλέσομαι
αἰεί, ἀντὶ γάμο
παρὰ θεο̑ν τοῦτο
λαχο̑σ 'ὄνομα

I, the tomb of Phrasikleia,

should 'Kore' [girl] be called
forever, / instead of marriage
from the gods I received this
name

Top left:

Ἀριστίον ∶ Πάρι [ός μ 'ἐπ] ο [ίε] σ̣ε Aristion of Paros made me

In 1968, the block was removed and the Epigraphic Museum of Athens brought. Four years later, the archaeologist Efthymios Mastrokostas discovered at the Street of Tombs of Myrrhinous two marble statues, a Kouros and Kore , which belonged obviously together. One immediately remembered the inscribed plinth that had been in the church only 200 meters away. At the bottom of the statues was a lump of lead that was once used to attach them to their base. On the basis of this lump of lead, which fit exactly into the recess of the labeled marble block, the affiliation could be clearly proven. The statue with inventory number 4889 is now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and is on display in room 11.

description

The Kore Phrasikleia in the current list

The statue made of Parian marble , which can be viewed from the front, has a base and plinth of a height of 2.115 meters and stands on a 26 centimeter high plinth. Without a base, the sculpture has a height of 1.79 meters and is therefore roughly life-size. As the inscription suggests, it is about a young woman who died unmarried and is therefore forever referred to as a girl. She stands upright and wears a body-length chiton , which is decorated with rosettes , stars and swastikas , on the front of the body a wide, meandering band runs from top to bottom. At the very bottom the robe is decorated with colored leaf ornaments. She wears a decorated belt around her hips. The front part of her feet and her sandals are visible. She lets her right arm hang down and holds the chiton with her hand. Her left arm is bent in front of her chest and she is holding a closed lotus in her hand . On her head she wears a high wreath of flowers, some of which consists of lotus. A chain around the neck, earrings in the ears and a bracelet on each arm. The long, elaborately designed, curly and multi-stranded hair falls partly behind the back and partly down to the front from the shoulders to the chest. The hair on the head is wavy, not braided. You can see remnants of the former painting. The chiton has red color in several places. The painting was reconstructed in the exhibition Bunte Götter , which took place in the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt in 2008/09.

literature

Web links

Commons : Phrasikleia Kore  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) I³ 1261 .
  2. ^ Mary Clorinda Stieber: The poetics of appearance in the Attic korai. University of Texas Press, Austin 2004, ISBN 0-292-70180-2 , pp. 146-147 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
  3. ^ Hans Rupprecht Goette : Athens, Attica, and the Megarid: an archaeological guide. Routledge, London and New York 2001, ISBN 0-415-24370-X , p. 114 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
  4. ↑ Werner Fuchs , Josef Floren : The Greek sculpture: Die geometrische und archaische Plastik , CH Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-31718-9 , p. 164 ( excerpt from Google Books ).