#such as Pandora in some depictions where she's being made of clay/decorated by the gods but haven't been givem life yet.

[meirimerens]

not as far as I'm aware! afaik the art historian consensus is rather the opposite; that the archaic smile is a symbol of health and well-being, as the kouroi (statues of young men) and korai (statues of young women) of the era that have this little smile are meant to be idealized representations of members of greek high society, and the little smiles being this marker of idealized health, behavior and beauty of aristocrat youth. I wonder if the hypothesis that it symbolizes death could come from the fact that kouroi and korai of this era were either funerary (tomb markers typically) or votive and never "represented" a living person technically. but from what I've read and what the researchers I study from have said, the little smile that looks like this: • ‿ • is not about death, but about an idealized representation of youth, health and contentment. the happy placid smiler, them smiling due to their joy tranquility... etc

artemios o moschophoros

based on el famoso Moschophoros ("Calf-Bearer"), a ~570 BC greek statue of the Archaic period, depicting a man carrying on his shoulders a calf brought as a sacrifice to the god(s) the statue was dedicated to (the more widely-known hypothesis is a dedication to Athena, as the Moschophoros was found on the Acropolis, but considering the animal is male, a male deity is also considered probable as a recipient).