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Silver Stater of the
Amphiktyonic
Council. Ca. 336
BCE.
Note Apollo, Laurel,
Omphalos, Lyre,
Tripod, and
inscription:
AMPHIKTIONON
(“of the Amphictyons”)
Numismatic Museum,
Athens.
Bronze Censer; peplos-clad
female holds semi-spherical
vessel in raised hands.
c. 450 BCE.
Delphi Museum.
Height: 26 cm.
See Euripides’ ION (89ff):
“The wreaths of incense-breathing
myrrh mount to the roof of Phoebus’
fane; the Delphic priestess
now assumes her seat, and from
the hallow’d tripod pronounces to
the Greeks the oracular strains
which the god dictates.”
The “Kore of Euthydikos.”
Inscription on base reads
“Dedicated by Euthydikos
son of Thaliarchos.
Severe Style. Ca. 490 BCE.
Acropolis Museum, Athens.
Height: 58 cm. Marble.
Grave Stele of “Hegeso, wife/
daughter of Proxenos.”
(inscription on pedimental
finial)
Marble. Ca. 410 BCE.
Athens, National Museum.
Height: 1.49 m.
The woman looks at pyxis (box)
which maid presents, probably
containing jewelry.
Backgrounds of such monuments
were usually painted blue.
The “Kore of Antenor.”
Base inscription indicates
it was dedicated to Athena by
the potter Nearchos and was
carved by noted Athenian
sculptor Antenor, who
carved the “Tyrannicides”
Group.
Ca. 525 BCE.
Acropolis Museum.
Height: 2 meters.
Funerary Kouros, “Kroisos” (from inscription
on its base). Inscriptions can help differentiate
funerary from votive statues. Marble.
Found at Anavyssos in Attica.
Ca. 525 BCE.
National Museum, Athens.
Height: 1.94 m.
Bronze Statuette of a young
runner at the aphesis (starting
point at stadium). Inscription on
right thigh reads: “To DiWos
IMI”(“I belong to Zeus”).
Made in Argos, ca. 480 BC.
Severe Style.
Olympia Museum.
Height: 10.2 cm.
Votive relief.
Hermes
with double-flute
leads chiton-clad
females holding
hands with a
child. Perhaps
Erichthonios
with the Herse,
Aglaurus and
another female..
Acropolis Museum
perhaps carved
by an island artist
Ca. 500 BCE.
Limestone.
Height: 39.5 cm.
Bronze head of Zeus from
Olympia. Part of a votive
Statuette. Late Archaic.
National Museum, Athens.
Height: 17 cm.
See Pausanias
Guide to Greece 5.21.2ff:
“On the way to the racingtrack…bronze statues
of Zeus have been
dedicated, made from
the money paid in penalties
by athletes fined for dishonoring the games. The
local people call them Zans.”