Hera of Cheramyes

Hera of Cheramyes

ca. 575-550 BCE

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visual works

Greece (nation)

Sámos (inhabited place)

Archaic (Greek)

korai (statues)

Hera (Greek deity)

View of a kore, a statue of a standing young woman with draped clothing. "Among the earliest of the 6th century korai from Samos. A columnar figure, over life-size, carved in one piece with the plinth. She wears three garments: a chiton of light-weight material which forms numerous fine folds and is gathered at the waist by a belt, a short himation of somewhat heavier fabric which passes over the right shoulder and both breasts then under the left arm, and a folded epiblema which is worn over the head as a veil and falls nearly to the ground. Its right edge is caught up by the right hand, while a corner of the opposite side is hooked under the belt ... The inscription to Hera is carved in small, neat letters along the edge of the epiblema, running down the center of the body. The original identification of the statue as Hera, however, was based primarily on the wearing of the veil,"--Perseus Digital Library.

marble (rock)

Height: 1.92 meters

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