Grey Limestone Kouros Head

Light grey limestone head from a kouros, painted.

Head from a large statuette, broken from chin to approximately the ear-level of the back of the head. The tip of the nose is missing. Behind the right ear is a perforation.

The face is narrow and tapering towards a pointed chin; the back of the head is flat and continues straight as the surviving part shows. The cheeks are fleeing towards the back. The surface is treated in a fine manner, convex and concave lines are merging. The eyes are slightly downcast; the slightly protruding, oval eyes are framed by fine eyelids. The right eye is oblique, the left straight; the eyebrows are indicated by protruding bands. The nose is long, the tip, now broken off, was thicker. The mouth is small, the thin lips slightly curved, the edges turned up to a light smile; the lower lip and the small pointy chin recoil slightly. The ears are very large with swollen lobes. The nose is large, the mouth small and slightly bowed. Across the forehead, from ear to ear, is a thick diadem or hairband which is covered by some locks around the temples; the perforation behind the ear might have served for the attachment of some kind of decoration for the hair. The forelocks are centrally parted and are falling in five sharply separated tresses behind the ears and down to the neck, seven tresses are falling down from the lower centre of the head.

There are traces of black paint on the hair and the right eye, traces of red remain on the lips and the hairband.

Dimensions: Height: 9.40 centimetres

Object Type: figure

Series: Höckmann Type 1 (Sub group 3)

Techniques: painted

Archaic II

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