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Nikandre - Naxian Kore
National Museum, Athens. © E. Brundige 2005.
"Nikandre" of Naxos.
Illustration for my travel blog, Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal.
The oldest known "Kore" figure, an archaic Greek form of art derived -- perhaps -- from Egyptian art. Kore means "maiden" and was a stylized image of a young woman represented in the same manner as Demeter's daughter Persephone/Kore, or, sometimes, as the maiden goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo.
The statue was commissioned by a lady named Nikandre, as we know from an inscription on the statue. It was apparently a dedication to Apollo:
"Nikandre dedicated me to the far-shooting arrow-pourer, daughter (kore) of Deinomenes the Naxian, excellent above all, sister of Deinomenes, now wife of Phraxos." -- Robin Osborne
Nikandre - Naxian Kore
National Museum, Athens. © E. Brundige 2005.
"Nikandre" of Naxos.
Illustration for my travel blog, Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal.
The oldest known "Kore" figure, an archaic Greek form of art derived -- perhaps -- from Egyptian art. Kore means "maiden" and was a stylized image of a young woman represented in the same manner as Demeter's daughter Persephone/Kore, or, sometimes, as the maiden goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo.
The statue was commissioned by a lady named Nikandre, as we know from an inscription on the statue. It was apparently a dedication to Apollo:
"Nikandre dedicated me to the far-shooting arrow-pourer, daughter (kore) of Deinomenes the Naxian, excellent above all, sister of Deinomenes, now wife of Phraxos." -- Robin Osborne