Who was the “Dama de Elche” or Lady of Elche? #IberianWomen

 The Lady of Elche as an icon of the Iberian Woman

Who was the “Dama de Elche” or Lady of Elche?  Many of you will recognise the photo, but maybe you do not know much more about her story.

The Lady of Elche was found by chance in L’Al­cú­dia, close to Elche, in 1897, and bought for very little money by a French ar­chae­olo­gist. It is a lime­stone bust dat­ing from the 4th cen­tury BC (the time of the Iberian tribes) and the open­ing in the rear of the sculp­ture in­dic­ates it may have been used as a fu­neral urn.

Here are some posters designed by our students as the final product: post-listening and post-reading task. These posters contain information about the mysterious Lady of Elche taken from a variety of sources I provided them with. 

If you drop by our British Corner at school, you'll enjoy them there too! 

Who was THE LADY OF ELCHE? from MEFP-British Council Programme IES Al-Qázeres

The Lady of Elche as an icon of the Iberian Woman from MEFP-British Council Programme IES Al-Qázeres

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