Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Funerary Statue of a Kouros
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Funerary Statue of a Kouros
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Image View:
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Overall side view from left side
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Creator:
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unknown (Ancient Greek)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale 'Paolo Orsi' (Syracuse, Sicily, Italy) inv. 49401
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Location Note:
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Viale Teocrito, 66
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GPS:
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+37.0764+15.2864
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Date:
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ca. 550 BCE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Ancient Greek
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Style Period:
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Archaic (Greek)
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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kouros
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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Cycladic marble, from Naxos
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Subjects:
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death or burial; funerary art; human figure; Cemeteries
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Description:
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Funerary statue of a kouros, with Ionic influences. On the right leg, incised vertically and read from the top down, there is an inscription in the Megarian alphabet which identifies the statue as the doctor Sombrotida, son of Mandrokle. From the south necropolis at Megara Hyblaea (12 miles northwest of Syracuse). There is an extensive necropolis at Megara Hyblaea of which about 1500 tombs have been explored. [Information from museum label.]
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-G-AMA-FSK-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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