Collection: Delos Archaeological Museum
Title: Lower part of a kouros
Context: From Delos
Findspot: Found at Delos (in 1906)
Summary: Waist, pelvis, and right upper leg (including knee) 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. 600 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.85 m
Scale: Slightly under life-size
Region: Cyclades
Period: Archaic

Subject Description: A tripartite belt clasped at the center adorned the waist; the stylized pubic hair is carved in low relief. The hand seems to have been held at the side, as a small part of the attachment is perceptible.

Form & Style: A lead socket at the groin indicates that a separately worked phallos had been attached.

Condition: Single piece

Condition Description: This piece preserves the lower torso from the top of the waist to the bottom of the right knee and to the top of the left thigh.

Material Description: Island marble (probably Naxian)

Sources Used: Stewart 1990, fig. 39; Bruneau 1983, 58-59 fig. 4; Richter 1970b, 53 no. 17, figs. 94-95

Other Bibliography: Deonna 1909, no. 83