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Choirine Relief
Artist: Greek
Location: British Museum
Date: 370-360 BC
Materials: marble
Dimensions: 66 x 49cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,000 (Total: £38,000)
Vendor: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd
Review number: 5929 (2007)
Provenance:
Said to have been found in Eleusis, and likely to have been acquired by the French vice-consul in Athens, L S Fauvel; acquired by French Rear-Admiral E Halgan (1771-1852) in 1819; Francois Lenormant, classical scholar and author of a study of Eleusis which mentions the relief, published in 1862; Jack Ogden, London; sold in 1983 to Carlo-Maria Fallani, Switzerland.
Description:
A small funerary relief of a priestess whose name was Choirine. She is depicted wearing a chiton and a cloak and holding a temple key, her badge of office. The figure is carved in low relief, slightly turned in three-quarter view, within a sunken rectangular panel. Her name is inscribed on the surround above. The stone would once have been painted and is thought to come from Eleusis, where it was probably set up at the beginning of the Sacred Way that led to Athens.
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