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Lady of Elche

c. 4th century BCE · 4th century BCE · Also known as Dama de Elche

The Lady of Elche is a limestone bust of a woman wearing elaborate jewellery and large wheel-shaped headdresses, carved by Iberian artists probably in the 4th century BCE. It was found in 1897 at La Alcudia near Elche, taken to the Louvre and returned to Spain in 1941. It is now in the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid.

Lady of Elche
Image: Luis Fernández García · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lady of Elche. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lady-of-elche
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The Epoch Institute. “Lady of Elche.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lady-of-elche.
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