Cleveland Museum of Art

Head of a Kore

Date

c. 480–460 BCE

Medium

marble

Culture

Greece, Amorgos

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This small head probably once belonged to a full-body statuette of a young woman, a miniature of the Archaic Greek kore statue type. She has heavily lidded eyes and wears a double-banded fillet around her hair. The face and front of the hair are damaged and weathered. A statuette such as this one was likely made as a votive gift to a goddess. Kore ,which means maiden, is also another name for the Greek goddess Persephone.

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