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| Name: |
De
La Borde Head |
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| Description: |
Possibly
from the Parthenon West Pediment. Paris, private collection. H. 0.76m.
Head of female deity. |
| Date: |
c. 440-435
B.C. |
| Discussion: |
If supposition
is correct, then this head belongs on the south side of the west pediment,
where a goddess is in conversation with a youthful male figure. She
probably represents Kallirhoe, the spring and river of Attika, a very
important figure in local mythology, and then likely to be identified
with the nameless nymph of a sanctuary on the south side of the Akropolis.
Her male companion would then be the river Ilissus. See Robertson
1981: 95, 97. |
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