Acropolis Kore 678

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"[Kore 678] is attired in a travesty of the Ionic costume betraying faulty imitation ... The garments fit so closely to the body behind as to suggest absolute nudity. Here again we have unintelligent imitation."—Guy Dickins, Catalogue Of The Acropolis Museum, 1912 This is my 3D scan of the Skulpturhalle Basel's late 19th-century plaster cast of the Athens Acropolis Museum's Kore 678. The 6th-century BC marble figure was found west of the Erechtheion in 1886. The thin raised lines that trace the figure's contours are remnants from the 19th-century piece-mold technique used to make the plaster cast. These parting lines were not considered defects, and expert mold-makers would leave them intact, thereby leaving a record of their work.