Collection: | Athens, National Archaeological Museum |
Title: | Dipylon Head |
Context: | From Athens, Kerameikos |
Findspot: | Excavated at Athens, Kerameikos (in fortifications near the Dipylon Cemetery, in 1916) |
Summary: | Head of youth |
Object Function: | Funerary? |
Material: | Marble |
Sculpture Type: | Free-standing statue: kouros |
Category: | Separated fragments |
Style: | High Archaic |
Technique: | In-the-round |
Original or Copy: | Original |
Date: | ca. 600 BC - ca. 580 BC |
Dimensions: | H 0.42 m |
Scale: | Over life-size |
Region: | Attica |
Period: | High Archaic |
In Whole: | Kouros of the Dipylon Head |
Condition: Fragmentary
Condition Description:
Head has broken away from body. Surface well preserved. Traces of red color in the bands around the hair.
Material Description: Island marble
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