Cyzikus (Turkey), gift of Theodor Wiegand 1932Marble, around 500 BC The head with slightly slanted eyes, a smiling mouth and long hair combed over the high back of the head belongs to an Eastern Greek statue of a girl (kore). But there is no jewellery, which alongside precious garments and a contained smile generally characterised the aristocracy’s image of women in the 6th century BC.

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