Statue of the kore Phrasikleia

From Merenda (ancient Myrrhinous) of Attica. 550–540 BC.
ΝΑΜ, Γ 4889

With her right hand she draws up the side of her chiton (robe), while in her left hand holds a lotus flower in front of her breast. A wreath with lotus flowers and buds adorns her head. Phrasikleia will remain forever a girl who will not feel the joy of marriage, as she tells us in the epigram on the pedestal of her monument: “Memorial of Phrasikleia. I shall always be called maiden (kore) having received this name from the gods instead of marriage. Aristion of Paros made me”.