QUICK FACTS
Name: Lady of Elche
What it is: A limestone bust
Where it is from: Elche, Spain
When it was made: Circa 400 to 350 B.C.
On a hot summer day in 1897, a farmer in Elche, a city on Spain's Mediterranean coast, discovered a life-size painted limestone bust of a mysterious-looking woman among a pile of seemingly discarded stones. The statue — now known as La Dama de Elche or the Lady of Elche — is a mishmash of ancient artistic styles and may represent a goddess or priestess.
