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The Peplos Kore is a statue of a girl and one of the most well-known examples of Archaic Greek art. The 117 cm high white marble statue was made around 530 BC and originally was colourfully painted. The statue was found west of the Erechtheion on the Athenian Acropolis and is now located in the Athenian Acropolis Museum. The Peplos Kore (peplos being the type of robe or shawl-like fabric draped over the figure and kore referencing to a young female) stands at approximately 1.8 meters in height. Its original structure consists of parian (fine grained) marble. The sculpture was extracted on the Acropolis, northwest of Erechtheion, Greece in an 1886 excavation and was created c. 530 BCE. The work was found broken up in three pieces and only traces remain of the original paint. == Description == The name of the statue comes from the heavy woolen garment worn by the girl (Greek: κόρη, ''kore''), the Dorian peplos, which was no longer actually in fashion when the marble statue was made. Underneath it, the girl wears a thin chiton which peeps out from the sleeves and hem. Bore holes on the head and shoulders indicate that the statue was decorated with bronze head decorations (probably a wreath) and shoulder fibulae. The left arm was made of a separate piece of stone and is now lost. The Peplos Kore is ascribed to the ''Rampin Master'' who is named for another head, very similar in style, which was in the Rampin Collection and is now on display in the Louvre. In Brinkmann's opinion, this statue type does not depict mortal girls but goddesses.〔Vinzenz Brinkmann, ''Mädchen oder Göttin? Das Rätsel der ›Peploskore‹ von der Athener Akropolis'', in Vinzenz Brinkmann and Raimund Wünsche (Ed.), ''Bunte Götter. Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur'', Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek, München 2003, pp. 53–60.〕 Her posture corresponds in no way to the late archaic Kore, "who steps forward with he left leg, holds her skirt with her left hand and holds fruit in the crook of her right arm."〔ibid., p. 56〕 On the Peplos Kore, there are bore holes in the lowered right arm and the bent left arm which suggest she held a bow and arrows〔Crowned female statue with bow and arrows〕 or a shield and helmet. The bore holes on the head which are usually interpreted as being for a wreath could perhaps have accommodated a loose fitting crown. The Peplos Kore, along with a variety of other similar kore statues, or korai in a plural sense, have been discovered at the Acropolis, dating to as early as the early 6th century BCE. Some have suggested that patrons most likely commissioned the kore statues to serve offerings to worshiped deities, as votive figures who stand in their place. Some wealthier individuals used the kore statues as decorate grave markers for deceased family members. The figure's “perfect symmetry and unearthly expression" suggests that the Peplos Kore may represent an ideal youthful embodiment of the deceased person's soul, rather than a physical likeness. But the Peplos Kore holds many distinct differences from the other discovered kore figures, as the work is found to be dressed in a particular manner, unlike the others, leading some archaeologists to suggest the statue may have been a goddess representation. The statue is crafted from the round, as it is positioned in a frontal view is as well as presented with detailed distinctions, especially in the facial features. The face of the Peplos Kore displays an “archaic smile” similar to many discovered Greek statues originating from the archaic period. Merriam Webste In 1975, the Museum of Classical Archaeology attempted to replicate the sculpture’s original appearance by painting a cast of the figure. The replica was then displayed next to a second, unpainted cast as a challenge to the erroneous equation of ancient Greek sculpture with pure white marble.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peplos Kore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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