Collection: Samos, Archaeological Museum of Samos
Title: Head of a kouros
Context: Probably from Samos, Sanctuary of Hera
Findspot: Found at Samos, east of the Sanctuary
Summary: Head of a youthful male figure with shoulder length (?) beaded hair
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. 550 BC - ca. 540 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.41 m; W. (max.) 0.25 m; Th. (max.) 0.29 m; W. (mouth) 0.078 m; distance between eyes: 0.156 m (outer distance); 0.042 (inner distance)
Scale: Over life-size
Region: Sporades
Period: High Archaic

Subject Description: The hair is pullled back from the forehead, over the crown, behind the ears, and cascades down the back in beaded locks, with strong vertical striations.

Condition: Head only (nearly complete)

Condition Description: The head has been broken off at the middle of the neck in a diagonal break. The face has nearly eroded away, and the surface of the hair has also been eroded. Some dark adhesions remain.

Sources Used: Freyer-Schauenburg 1974, 93-95 no. 48, pl. 34

Other Bibliography: Schmidt 1971, 33, 37 f., pl. 25.2-3; Richter 1970b, 109 no. 122, figs. 377-78; Tuchelt 1970, 51, 54, 55-56, 58, 148-49; Himmelmann 1965, 38; Laubscher 1963-1964, 78, 82; Eckstein 1962, 47-57, pl. 45-54; Alscher 1954-63, 2.1, 153, n. 135; Lippold 1950, 58 n. 9; Buschor 1934-61, 1.14, figs. 42-44