Archaic II

Votive statuette of a young man

Votive statuette of a young man frontally in the Kuros scheme with the front left leg and adjacent, slightly bent arms with hands clenched to the fist.The young man is of strong physique with wide shoulders, emphasized upper arm muscles and strong neck.The hair, which is decorated with a narrow band, in individual curly strands, which radially come from the vertebrae, the calotte and is placed over the forehead in a double row of Löckchen;The wide hair mass falls down in the back.The clothing consists of a undervint and a red mantle cloth, which falls down in front of the left shoulder in the front of one side and is led around the right side of the body under the craze, the right chest and the left side remain free.The underneath was only specified with red lines to the plastic and also red -painted, round neckline, which mark the sleeve hem in the arm into the arms and run on the side along the upper arms - next to the neglected back, another indication that the setting of the statuettewas calculated on pure front view.In addition to the undervint and on the coat, red color traces can also be found on the mouth;On the left eye, remaining black color to indicate the pupil.The back is coarse, partly board -like, left, but the buttocks are emphasized.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (K. Gschwantler) H. 70,5 cm