Stylistically the statue marks the transition from the late archaic to the Severe Style. Described by Jeffry Hurwit as an early classical statue in archaic dress, the Euthydikos kore exhibits a sense of volume and structure under the drapery that was novel. Since she is perhaps the last in the series of akropolis korai and represents the beginning of the new style, the dating of the statue is of some significance. As stated the bust was taken from a trench dug to the east of the Parthenon by Evstratiadis in 1882, though the stratigraphy of this trench had been compromised the layer in which the kore was found in was taken to be the Perserschutt. However, as Andrew Stewart argues this layer may be Kimonian or Periklean backfill against the south wall. Further, Stewart maintains that the burning observed on the Euthydikos kore is in fact colouration, that the kore can be grouped with the archaising Pig Relief and that the kore is by the same sculptor as the Blonde Boy. He also notes that the kore is not facially mutilated, suggesting that it wasn’t vandalised by the Persians. This implies that the kore’s date may be placed later in the 470s and that the Severe Style developed after the Median War and perhaps as a consequence of it.