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Syracuse: Temple of Demeter, votive figure of kore



Syracuse: Votive figure of kore (Mus.Orsi Syracuse; Photo: Athena Review 2004)


This Late Archaic terracotta sculpture fragment represents a kore or young female, often identified with Persephone, the daughter of the goddess Demeter (Richter 1962). The sculpture dates from the 7th-6th century BC.

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