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Column of the Dancing Girls

One of the most charming and best-known works in the museum is the column of the dancing girls, (330 - 320 BC).

It is a marble base, originally 11 m. in height, in the form of a plant stem encircled by dense
acanthus leaves and surmounted by three embossed nubile dancing maidens. They wear short chitons of flimsy, diaphanous material, through which the outlines of the body are clearly visible, and on the head they have a peculiar headdress, the kalathiskos.

The column with the dancing girls, which originally had a tripod at the top, on which rested a bronze cauldron, was a votive of the Athenians.

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