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Piraeus Apollo, left hand, detail (before restoration)

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Piraeus Apollo, head, from left (before restoration)

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Piraeus Apollo, head, frontal view (before restoration)

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Piraeus Apollo, upper torso and head (before restoration)

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Piraeus Apollo, head, back view (before restoration)

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Piraeus Apollo, frontal view (before restoration)

Collection: Piraeus Archaeological Museum
Title: Piraeus Apollo
Context: Possibly from Delos
Findspot: Excavated at Piraeus (found in 1959 in a cache together with the Piraeus Athena and two statues of Artemis [Piraeus 4647 and Piraeus 4648]).
Summary: Male figure standing with arms held forward
Material: Bronze
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue: kouros
Category: Single monument
Style: High Archaic
Technique: Hollow cast
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 530 BC - ca. 520 BC
Dimensions: H. 1.92 m
Scale: Life-size
Region: Attica
Period: High Archaic

Condition: Intact

Condition Description: Figure missing only objects originally held in hands. Some corrosion and cracks in left leg.

Technique Description: Indirect, lost-wax method

Sources Used: Stewart 1990, 38, 109; Kyrieleis 1986, 181ff. (Dontas); Boardman 1978a, 81,85, fig. 150