Today’s Question CLXXV
Recognise this beauty. Whats her story…
CLXXV
Cracked by Sacridfig, madhuri and Akshatha. Mansi and Noronha were spot on with their answers.
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she’s a caryatid
she’s a caryatid…one of the ones from the porch at the erechthion
Caryatid from the Erechtheion . Quoting Wikipedia – A caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means “maidens of Karyai”, an ancient town of Peloponnese. Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: “As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants” .
The Caryatid from the Erectheon at the british museum that was removed by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s.
A caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means “maidens of Karyai”, an ancient town of Peloponnese. Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: “As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants”
The best-known and most-copied examples are those of the six figures of the Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens
One of those original six figures, removed by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s, is now in the British Museum in London. The other five figures are replaced onsite by replicas, and are in the Acropolis Museum.
Caryatid from Erechtheion, Greece! (A female figure column support)
Caryatid from the Erechtheion, Athenian Acropolis in the British Museum.
According to Vitruvius, the female figures of the Erechtheion represented the punishment of the women of Karyæ, a town near Sparta, who were condemned to slavery after betraying Athens by siding with Persia in the Greco-Persian Wars.