Peploskore
The statue of a girl called Peploskore is one of the most famous examples of archaic art from ancient Greece. The 117 centimeter high statue made of white Parian marble was created around 530 BC. BC and was originally brightly painted on the Athens Acropolis . Today it is exhibited in the Acropolis Museum under inventory number 679 .
features
The girl depicted, κόρη Kore in ancient Greek , is dressed in a heavy woolen robe, the Doric peplos , which was already out of fashion when the statue was made. Underneath, she wears a thin chiton whose fine folds can be seen on the sleeves and hem of the skirt. Drilled holes on the head and shoulders indicate that the statue was decorated with a headdress, probably a wreath, and bronze shoulder brooches. The left forearm missing today, once stretched forward, was worked separately. Remnants of paint in various places on the statue testify to the extensive painting of body parts such as hair and lips as well as the garment.
The peploskore can possibly be associated with the Rampin master , who is named after the stylistically closely related head of an equestrian statue from the Rampin collection of the diplomat Georges Rampin and is located in the Louvre . It was found in 1886 west of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis and is now in the Athens Acropolis Museum .
According to the more recent interpretation by Vinzenz Brinkmann , the statue does not represent a girl, but a goddess. The posture pattern does not correspond in any way to that of the late Archaic Koren, “who put their left leg in front, gather their skirt with their left hand and a fruit with their bent right arm hold. ”The holes in the lowered right and angled left arm pointed more to holding a bow and arrow or a shield and helmet. Further holes in the dome indicate a loosely attached helmet or a wreath.
Reinforced goddess,
but no peploskore
(after Brinkmann)
Detail of the peploskore
Head of the Horseman Rampin from the Athens Acropolis
literature
- John Boardman : Greek sculpture. The archaic time. A manual (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 5). 3. Edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-0346-7 , p. 78, plates 115 and 129.
- Vinzenz Brinkmann : girl or goddess? The mystery of the ›Peploskore‹ from the Athens Acropolis. In: Vinzenz Brinkmann, Raimund Wünsche (ed.): Colorful gods. The colors of ancient sculpture. Exhibition catalog Munich. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich 2003, pp. 53–60.
- Katerina Karakasi: Archaic Koren. Hirmer, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7774-8840-2
- Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway : The Peplos Kore, Acropolis 679 . In: Journal of the Walters Art Gallery , 36, 1977, pp. 49-61, ISSN 0083-7156 .
Web links
- Statue of a kore, “Peploskore” in the Arachne archaeological database
- The peploskore at the sculpture hall Basel
- Early attempt to reconstruct the original, painted state ( memento from June 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Cambridge University
- Color reconstruction variant A according to Vinzenz Brinkmann
- Archeology Foundation Color Reconstruction Variant C according to Vinzenz Brinkmann - Polychromy
Individual evidence
- ^ Vinzenz Brinkmann: Girl or Goddess? The mystery of the ›Peploskore‹ from the Athens Acropolis. In: Vinzenz Brinkmann, Raimund Wünsche (ed.): Colorful gods. The colors of antique sculpture , Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek, Munich 2003, pp. 53–60.
- ^ Vinzenz Brinkmann: Girl or Goddess? The mystery of the ›Peploskore‹ from the Athens Acropolis. In: Vinzenz Brinkmann, Raimund Wünsche (ed.): Colorful gods. The colors of ancient sculpture , Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek, Munich 2003, p. 56.