Archaic II

Kouros Head

Light grey limestone head of a kouros figure, painted. Head of a young man, broken at the base of the neck from a statuette. The right cheek and earlobe are damaged. The face is oval with a pointed chin, a long aquiline nose, wide protruding eyes; the eyebrows and the outline of the eyes show traces of black paint. The mouth is small and shaped into a smile, with traces of red paint; a moustache was rendered in relief and painted in black, a full beard was indicated from the temples down to the upper edge of the neck by means of black spots. The hair is worked as a flat mass parted in the centre and falling like a wig down to the neck; the ears are not covered and rawly treated. There are traces of black paint on the hair; on the forehead a thin red headband was painted right below the hairline. The back is worked flat. Dimensions: Height: 4.50 centimetres Object Type: figure Series: Nick Type 1 (Sub group 1.7) Techniques: painted