Athens NM 2720 kouros from Sounion

Colossal kouros from Sounion

Athens, NM 2720

Island marble.

Original height: 3.05 m.

Find-spot: 'Found in 1906, in a deep pit east of the temple of Poseidon at Sounion, together with a torso, fragments of arms, legs and hair, and their bases with feet in addition to the base on which the statue is now mounted' (Richter).

Bibliography

Richter, Gisela M.A. 1970. Kouroi: archaic Greek youths. A study of the development of the Kouros type in Greek sculpture (New York: Oxford University Press), 42-44, figs. 33-39, no. 2.

© David Gill, 2001

This page was created by David Gill on 21 November 2001.



	Colossal kouros from Sounion Athens, NM 2720 Island marble. Original height: 3.05 m. Find-spot: 'Found in 1906, in a deep pit east of the temple of Poseidon at Sounion, together with a torso, fragments of arms, legs and hair, and their bases with feet in addition to the base on which the statue is now mounted' (Richter). Bibliography Richter, Gisela M.A. 1970. Kouroi: archaic Greek youths. A study of the development of the Kouros type in Greek sculpture (New York: Oxford University Press), 42-44, figs. 33-39, no. 2.
© David Gill, 2001	This page was created by David Gill on 21 November 2001.