Lady of Elche
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The Lady of Elche is a bust representing a woman wearing an elaborate headdress and large wheel-like coils (known as rodetes) on each side of the face. The opening in the rear of the sculpture indicates it may have been used as a funerary urn. In 2023, two similar female stone busts were discovered at the Turuñuelo archeological site in Guareña, Spain, that are about a century earlier.
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2023
- Historical notes
- Discovered busts date to the 5th century BC.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Lady of Guardamar, Lady of Baza, Lady of Caudete, Lady of Cerro de los Santos
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“The Lady of Elche stands as a statue representing Phoenicia as one of the seafaring nations at the Alexander Hamilton Custom House facade. French artist James Tissot based figures in several of his turn-of-the-century paintings on the Lady of Elche.”
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