| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2727 | |
| Title: | SEVERE STYLE KOUROS HEAD | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 2727 | |
| Old Number: | BE-35 | |
| Description: | Youthful male head, c. 1/2 life-size; hair brushed forward from top back of head in radiating thin long strands, round in section, with horizontal "underlying" rings, ending over forhead in a single roll of snail-curls, curling toward center on both sides of face; in back hair braided, beginning behind ears, presum. crossed in back, with ends brought above ears to tie with fillet over top of head. Face oval with broad flat forehead, angular in horizontal section; sharp brow ridge. Shallow-set large eyes with arched upper lid, straight lower lid, pronounced tear duct; full cheeks with faint hollow framing nostrils, and tapering to strong chin. Nostrils poss. not drilled; small mouth, filtrum rendered, upper lip dips in center. Ears well modeled, tilted slightly back, drill hole separating tragus and antitragus; short columnar neck with throat rendered, flattened in back, start of shoulders. skin carefully smoothed. | |
| Material: | Coarse-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Head, neck; broken at back of head, nose; fresh chips in hair, back of head, cheek, chin, neck. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.125 (head) W00.076 (at ears) H00.097 (face)L00.017 (eye) Distance00.020 (inner corners eyes) Distance00.057 (OC) L00.024 (mouth) Distance00.040 (OC mouth-OC eye) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.154 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | 2nd quarter 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | East Side of Corinth | |
| Context: | East Side of Corinth, From field of Vasilios Kouroupis, city grid W12/g4 | |
| Bibliography: | BCH "Chronique" 1966, p. 749 fig. 1; Krystalli-Votsi, ArchEph 1976 pp. 182-193; Ridgway, Archaic Greek Sculpture, E. Walter-Karydi, Altagina II.2. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: East Side of Corinth Images (15) Basket: East Side of Corinth, From field of Vasilios Kouroupis, city grid W12/g4 |
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