Form: statue-relief in Daedalic style of the so-called “Dama di Sibari”.
Description: standing female figure, seen from the front, decorated with low-relief; the inferior part of the dress shows a decoration on four registers: from the bottom, two sphinxes facing out, four ephebes walking rightwards, choròs of young girls, front view, with long decorated dresses, and finally a male figure walking rightwards carrying the body of a warrior with armour, helmet and lophos. Each scene is separated by a strip decorated with reversed S motifs with central dots; on the edge of the dress, a motif with vertical band of eggs. Around the waist there is a belt decorated with a chessboard motif, while the upper part of the dress is decorated with a fishscale motif on the bust and a net motif on the left arm. Part of an archaic hairstyle is visible on the left shoulder.
Date: third quarter of the VII century B.C.
Found at: Francavilla Marittima (CS), Timpone della Motta, Sanctuary
Exhibited at: Sybaritide Archaeological Museum