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Comparisons between a photograph of a little kore head, now lost, and a bust found at the Samian Heraion in 1991, makes it possible to henceforth reconstruct most of the image of a kore that dates back to the period of the famous Cheramyes offerings. The study of a long-neglected terracotta from Selinus has led the author to reexamine this comparison. The clearer and more exact image obtained confirms the long-accepted relation with the Samian form of another head, Berlin 1631, found at Miletus, and whose alleged date (540/530) seems to impede relationship with the great korai of the Louvre and Samos. However, a recently published work has renewed chronological data a lot: a copy of the type of clay protome found by Boehlau at Samos, obviously related to the Berlin head, and which for this reason was also dated to the third quarter of the century, was found in Sicily in a funeral context prior to 570. It is thus easy to consider the Miletus head as a Samian work of the same period, and use it to attempt a graphic reconstruction of the Cheramyes Korai.