Collection: Delos Archaeological Museum
Title: Torso and head of a kouros
Context: From Delos
Findspot: Found at Delos
Summary: Torso and head of a kouros
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue: kouros
Category: Separated fragments
Style: Daedalic
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 650 BC - ca. 625 BC
Dimensions: N.A.
Scale: Life-size
Region: Cyclades
Period: Early Archaic


Subject Description: This kouros wore a thick tripartite belt, clasped at the center; his hair falls in thick locks on either side of the face, and slightly behind the shoulders.

Condition: Single piece

Condition Description: Only the upper torso, from the belt up, is preserved; the arms are broken off just below the shoulders. The surface is severely worn, so that no facial features and little delineation in the hair are evident.

Sources Used: Bruneau 1983, 57 fig. 2; Richter 1970b, 27, figs. 22-24

Other Bibliography: Deonna 1909, no. 82