Caryatid - Maiden Young Female Figure - Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens - Alabaster Statue

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece.
Material: Alabaster
Height: 15.5 cm (6")
Width: 3.3 cm (1.3")
Weight: 120g

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 most celebrated example is the caryatid porch of the Erechtheum with six figures (420–415 BC), on the Acropolis of Athens. The word comes from the Spartan city of Caryae, where young women did a ring dance around an open-air statue of the goddess Artemis, locally identified with a walnut tree.