- Museum number
- 1874,0725.1
- Title
- Series: The Didyma Sculptures
- Description
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Marble head and left shoulder from a life-sized statue of a youth (Kouros).
Head and bare left shoulder of a youth, broken from a statue of life-size. The face is weathered; the nose is rubbed down and eyes and chin are abraded; in the more sheltered parts the surface is well preserved.
The hair is drawn back from the forehead to the back of the crown in short knobbed tresses divided by grooves; from beneath this it falls down on the shoulders in similar longer tresses, ending in a waved edge. The face is oval with full cheeks and strongly sloped forehead. The eyes are long and set at a slight angle, deeply grooved all round, the eyeball raised and flat; the eyebrows flat. The ears are small and carefully worked. The mouth is straight, the lips thick; the chin heavy and rounded.
The shoulder slopes heavily; the surface is conventionally rounded, with no anatomical detail. The arm-socket is broken away.
- Production date
- 550BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 31 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Sculpture
Smith, no. 19; Collignon, Sculpt. gr., I, p. 174, fig. 79; Deonna, Apollons archaiques, no. 131; Hoffmann, Darstellung des Haares, p. 190; Klein, Ges. d. gr. Kunst, I, p. 149; Loewy in Jahreshefte, 1909, p. 292; v. Lücken in Ath. Mitt., 1919, p. 61; Mendel in B.C.H., 1907, p. 190, and Constantinople Cat., II, p. 240; V. Müllerin Arch. Anz., 1921, p. 235; Overbeck, Apollon, p. 11, no. I, and Gr. Plastik, 4th ed., I, pp. 104, 114; P. Paris, Manual of Anc. Sculpt., p. 143, fig. 72; Perrot, Hist. de l’Art, VIII, p. 280, fig. 113; Pioard in Rev. Arch., 1910 (XV), p. 84; Rayet and Thomas, Milet, pl. 27. 1; Waldhauer in J.H.S., 1924, p. 47; Wiegand in Ath. Mitt., 1906, p. 88.
- Location
- On display (G13)
- Condition
- The face is weathered. The nose, eyes and chin are worn.
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1874,0725.1
