A nearly intact 2,700-year-old statue will be on display on the Greek island of Santorini this weekend, the Greek Ministry of Culture said in a statement today.
According to a ministry statement, a statue of a long-haired woman from the 7th century BC, Korea of Thera, was discovered in November 2000, possibly a funerary monument located in the cemetery of the ancient city of Thera.
Made from 2.5 meters high marble from the neighboring island of Naxos, most of the statue is in good condition, missing only a nose and a piece of elbow.
“This is one of the few remaining Hellenic stone statues,” the ministry said. Similar pieces had been discovered in the cemetery in the past, but were not in very good condition.
The statue will soon be presented during the temporary exhibition opening Sunday at the Santorini museum under renovation.
Santorini, today one of the top tourist destinations in Greece, experienced a volcanic eruption in the late 17th century BC that devastated a culturally advanced Minoan colony.
The statue comes from a later Doric civilization that built Thera in the 4th century BC.
source: Noticias
