Collection: Samos, Archaeological Museum of Samos
Title: Fragment of a left foot
Context: From Samos, Sanctuary of Hera
Findspot: Excavated at Samos, Heraion
Summary: Toes of a left foot (of a kouros?), and the front of a rounded plinth to which they were attached
Object Function: Votive
Sculptor: Suggested attribution to Geneleos
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue: kouros
Category: Statuary group
Style: High Archaic
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 560 BC - ca. 550 BC
Dimensions: W. 0.20 m. Foot: L. 0.074 m; W. 0.084 m
Scale: Life-size
Region: Sporades
Period: High Archaic
In Group: Geneleos Group


Condition: Single piece

Condition Description: The front of th eplinth has been broken off in a rough line just behind the toes of the left foot. The surface is slightly chipped and scratched, with some adhesions.

Material Description: Whitish-gray, coarse-grained marble

Sources Used: Freyer-Schauenburg 1974, 109 no. 59, pl. 47

Other Bibliography: G. Schmidt in ArchAnz 1969, 507; Buschor 1934-61, 1.15