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Auxerre Goddess

Restored and painted version, to give some idea of the original appearance

Number: 
2a
Material: 
Yellowish grey limestone
Location of Original: 

Paris, Louvre 3098

Size: 
0.65m
Accession: 

Either purchased from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen in 1951, or gift of Prof RJH Jenkins in 1950

References: 

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 22 (n.1); pl. 2.3
Karo: Personality in Greek Archaic Art, 93-4
Jenkins: Dedalica, 42
Collignon: Monuments et Memoires – Fondation Eugène Piot XX 1913, 5-38
Collignon: Revue Archéologique XI 1908, 153-170
Stewart: Greek Sculpture, 107, pls. 27-8
Richter: Korai (1968), 32, no.18, pls. 76-79
Martinez: La Dame d’Auxerre
Karakasi: Archaic Korai (2003), 56

Date: 
c.640 BCE
Provenance: 

Uncertain

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