Kore dressed in chiton and cape (epiblema)

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Human: "Epiblema" refers specifically to the long shawl draped loosely around the upper body of this figure. The term is also used in botany to describe the broken 'skin' that allows water to be absorbed by the roots of sprouting plants. This figure's costume helps us pinpoint its creation date as Late Archaic, approximately 520 BC: the dress is depicted in an elaborate and detailed manner, but the figure remains tightly composed around a central axis, wearing only the faint, flat "archaic smile" on her face. In the Early Archaic style, clothes would be portrayed more simply, and in later styles, the smile disappears while figures begin to twist more around their own axis. A "kore" (plural korai) is an Archaic sculpture featuring a female figure. Korai are always fully dressed, unlike the later Venus figures, which are partially or fully nude. The original figure would have been painted with bold colors and elaborate patterns on her dress. Kore no. 761 was discovered in 1886 on Acropolis in Athens, just west of the Erechtheion, alongside a range of other figures that had been hidden in a crevice in the rocks, possibly to salvage them from the Persian attack and torching of the place in 480 BCE. Archaeologists continue to unearth more parts of the figures, enabling them to complete the various sculptures further. This kore had a piece added to one arm in 2012. - Henrik Holm, senior research curator at SMK This is a 3D scan of a plaster cast of the sculpture 'Kore dressed in chiton and cape (epiblema)' dated circa 530 BCE. The scan was made from the cast (ref. KAS1800) in The Royal Cast Collection at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark. This is a downscaled version, approximately 10 mb. To learn more about the 3D scans of casts in The Royal Cast Collection and download all high-resolution 3D models, go to: www.smk.dk/3d If you create new work using the model and want to share it with us, email web@smk.dk