Cast Gallery catalogue number: B045a

Upper part of a kore holding a bird on her right hand.
Her crown is painted with lotus and palmette.
For the lower part see B045b

• Plaster cast: Height: 76cm.
• Copy of a fragment of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Lyons Kore.
  • is a Greek original of about 540 BC.
  • was found on the Athens Acropolis.
• The fragment:
  • is now in Lyons Museum.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

B 045 A
Lyon Kore; Lyon

Marble
Statue
Lyon