Palaikastro Kouros
Palaikastro Kouros | |
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Height | 50 cm |
Created | c. 1450 BC |
Discovered | 1987 Palaikastro, Crete, Greece |
Present location | Sitia, Crete, Greece |
The Palaikastro Kouros is a
The majority of its body (torso, legs, arms, and feet) is made of
The figure presumably represents the "young god" who had appeared relatively recently in
Excavation
The statue was found in several stages over a number of years: most of the torso in 1987, and the head in 1988. Unexpectedly, parts of the legs were then found in 1990, some thirty feet away from where the upper body parts had been. A thorough and careful water-sieving of six tons of soil from the site then produced hundreds of further fragments, including most of the feet, the eyes, and part of an ear. Piecing all these together took a further four years. Parts of a gold kilt and an ivory dagger
A small
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Map of "building 5" where parts of the statue were found at 4 locations, marked with *
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Another angle
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Another angle
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Detail
Notes
References
- Hemingway, Seán, Art of the Aegean Bronze Age, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 2012 Volume LXIX, Number 4
- MacGillivray J.A., Sackett L.H., Driessen J.M. et al., "The Palaikastro Kouros, a Minoan Chryselephantine Statuette and its Aegean Bronze Age Context", British School at Athens, BSA Studies, (1999). A book-length study by many authors, available on JSTOR, with each chapter treated as an article
- "Chapter 14": MacGillivray, Alexander, and Hugh Sackett. “The Palaikastro Kouros: the Cretan God as a Young Man”, p. 166, British School at Athens Studies, vol. 6, 2000, pp. 165–169. JSTOR. Accessed 22 Feb. 2021
- Also: (Lapatin, Kenneth D. S., J. A. Macgillivray, J. M. Driessen, L. H. Sackett, C. V. Crowther, P. Harrison, S. A. Hemingway, R. B. Koehl, M. S. Moak, A. Moraitou, J. Musgrave, A. Nikakis, S. E. Thorne, and J. Weingarten. "The Palaikastro Kouros: A Minoan Chryselephantine Statuette and Its Aegean Bronze Age Context." American Journal of Archaeology 106.2 (2002))
- The Palaikastro Kouros at the Odysseus portal of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture
External links
Media related to Palaikastro Kouros at Wikimedia Commons