Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Funerary Statue of a Kouros

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Funerary Statue of a Kouros
Image View: 
Detail of remnants of back of hair style (head missing)
Creator: 
unknown (Ancient Greek)
Location: 
repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale 'Paolo Orsi' (Syracuse, Sicily, Italy) inv. 49401
Location Note: 
Viale Teocrito, 66
GPS: 
+37.0764+15.2864
Date: 
ca. 550 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Ancient Greek
Style Period: 
Archaic (Greek)
Work Type 1: 
sculpture (visual work)
Work Type 2: 
kouros
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
Cycladic marble, from Naxos
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Subjects: 
death or burial; funerary art; human figure; Cemeteries
Description: 
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.]
Collection: 
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A3-G-AMA-FSK-A05
Rights: 
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