The Lady of Auxerre was named after the little Museum of Auxerre, a small city in the vicinity of Paris, where, in the 19th century, a Louvre curator sighted her in the vault of that museum.
It was decided she was a specimen of the so-called Daedalic type of eastern origin cultivated in the Greek world of the seventh century BC. Typical, in this respect, is her wig (which could also be Egyptian) and triangular face, while her dress is of the ancient Cretan type.
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