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    The Lady of Elche: a mysterious artifact found in 1897 on a private estate at La Alcudia, Spain

    Source: http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/0...alcudia-spain/



    The Lady of Elche, also known as Lady of Elx, is a limestone bust of a woman’s head found on a private estate at La Alcudia, two kilometers south of Elche, Spain.

    The Iberian artifact is believed to have been produced in the 4th century BC, although the craftsmanship suggests strong Hellenistic influences. It is one of the most famous sculptures in the world.


    The Lady of Elche, National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid.


    Detail of the Lady of Elche.

    The sculpture was found on 4 August 1897, by a young worker, Manuel Campello Esclapez. However, local keeper of the records Pere Ibarra had a different version of the discovery: he stated that a man named Antonio Maciá, one of the workers clearing the southeast slope of La Alcudia for agricultural purposes, was the one to find the bust.


    Discovered in 1897 at L’Alcúdia


    The initial discovery of The Lady of Elche provoked a popular interest in pre-Roman Iberian culture.

    The bust measures some 56 centimeters high, and it features the head and shoulders of an elite woman. The complex headdress features two large wheel-like coils known as “rodetes” on either side of the head and face.

    The statue was originally polychrome, or painted in vivid colors. Two of the colors have been identified by experts: classic natural vermillion and Egyptian blue.


    The bust features a woman wearing an elaborate headdress.


    The artifact has long been the object of archaeological studies and debate.

    Who she might have been continues to be a mystery. There has been speculation about whether the statue’s function was as a funerary receptacle, a representation of a goddess, or an Iberian princess.

    There’s also debate as to whether it was created as a bust or was once part of a larger figure. Technically and stylistically it is considered to have a strong Hellenistic influence.


    Many experts consider this sculpture as one of the most important European archaeological finds of recent times.


    Тhe design suggests strong Hellenistic influences.

    Shortly after the discovery, the owner of the site where it had been found sold the sculpture to Pierre Paris, a French archaeological connoisseur, who exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

    After the Vichy government negotiated with Franco’s government, the sculpture was placed in Museo del Prado (Madrid) on 27th June 1941. Since 1971, the Lady of Elche has been exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid and remains one of the museum’s greatest treasures.

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    It looks like a 19th century forgery
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skjaldemjøden View Post
    It looks like a 19th century forgery
    But it is authentic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cristiano viejo View Post
    But it is authentic.
    I didn't look it up before, but one professor John F. Moffitt wrote an entire book questioning its authenticity. And apparently it was already accused of being a forgery in a 1906, in an essay called Las esculturas del Cerro de los Santos, cuestion de autenticidad. Not saying it is, but I'm definitely not the first to think it looks fake.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skjaldemjøden View Post
    I didn't look it up before, but one professor John F. Moffitt wrote an entire book questioning its authenticity. And apparently it was already accused of being a forgery in a 1906, in an essay called Las esculturas del Cerro de los Santos, cuestion de autenticidad. Not saying it is, but I'm definitely not the first to think it looks fake.
    Yes I know, but diverse studies have shown it is authentic.

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    She is so hawt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel Frank Grimes View Post
    She is so hawt.
    Seriously? I find her very ugly.

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    Looks like there is also myan or aztec influence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jingorex View Post
    Looks like there is also myan or aztec influence.
    That would contravene all the laws of the space-time

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cristiano viejo View Post
    That would contravene all the laws of the space-time
    UNLESS...


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