Cast Gallery catalogue number: B046

Kore wearing a peplos over chiton. The left arm of the statue was made separately, as were a wreath and shoulder brooches, now lost. Many traces of paint remain.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.32m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Peplos Kore.
  • is a Greek original of about 530 BC.
  • was found on the Athens Acropolis, west of the Erechtheion, on 5th and 6th January 1886.
  • is now in Athens, Acropolis Museum, 679.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

B 046
Peplos Kore; Acropolis

Marble
Statue
Greece, Athens, Acropolis Museum, 679