Kriophoros (Sculpture)
Standing nude figure of a youthful male carrying a ram, and attached plinth
- ID:
- aa_3177
- Type:
- Sculpture
- Date:
- ca. -580
- Period:
- High Archaic
- Context:
- From Thasos
- Findspot:
- Excavated at Thasos, Pythion, built into a medieval wall (between 1914-1920)
- Region:
- Sporades
- Condition:
- Unfinished
- Scale:
- Colossal
- Dimensions:
- H. (restored) 3.5 m; H. incl. plinth 3.6 m
- Style:
- High Archaic
- Material:
- Marble
- Type:
- Free-standing statue: kouros
- Category:
- Single monument
Form and Style
The oval plinth to which the feet are attached slopes down from back to front.
Material Description
White, coarse-grained marble (perhaps Parian)
Technique Description
The statue seems to be unfinished, but only blocked out with the use of a point.
Subject Description
The hair is more detailed than the rest of the figure (and probably reached a greater point of completion). The locks of hair radiate from the crown, eight falling down the back and four on each side of the neck at the front. The locks of hair are beaded, having been divided by ridges horizontally and vertically. A hairband (taenia) is tied around the crown, knotted at the back, with ends hanging in a mannered style down the back.
Condition Description
The statue has been broken across the chest, at the knees, and above the ankles, but has been restored, with modern inclusions at the fractures, on part of the right arm, and a piece of the left elbow.
- Collection:
- Thasos Archaeological Museum
Citations and Bibliography
BCH 45 (1921) 88, 113 ff.