Collection: Athens, National Archaeological Museum
Title: Kouros from Megara
Context: From Megara
Findspot: Found at Megara (in 1860)
Summary: Torso and thighs of a youthful nude male figure, with his arms at his sides
Object Function: Votive?
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue: kouros
Category: Separated fragments
Style: High Archaic
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 540 BC
Dimensions: H. 2.00 m
Scale: Colossal
Region: Attica
Period: High Archaic


Subject Description: The hair, evidenced at the top of the back, was divided horizontally and vertically into beaded locks. The hair terminated just below the shoulders in an arc.

Condition: Single piece

Condition Description: The figure is broken off at the middle of the neck, just above the shoulders, and above the knees. The surface is severely chipped on the thighs (where hands would have been joined, and seem to have been chipped off), and stained on the buttocks. The left side of the chest is pitted.

Material Description: Coarse-grained "Island" marble

Sources Used: Richter 1970b, 99 no. 92, figs. 297-99 (with previous bibliography); Karouzou 1968, 19

Other Bibliography: Deonna 1909, no. 77