Unfinished "kouros" in the Mytilene Archaeological Museum: marble sculpture in Lesbos in the Archaic period

• E. Leka ^[1]
  1. [1] Direction of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Athína (Greece)
• Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 75-81
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The fragment of the legs of a marble "kouros" in the Mytilene Archaeological Museum (inv. 186) is one of the very few pieces of large-scale Archaic sculptures known to be from Lesbos. This fact related to its unfinished state as well as to the lack of known statuary marble quarry on the island raises interesting questions about the place of its manufacture and the origin of the marble. The paper constitutes the first presentation of the aforementioned fragment found in the 1960s in Skala Eresou, reused in a later context. It deals as well with two other Archaic sculptures from Eresos: a fragment of the left leg of another marble "kouros" and a primitive Kybele relief carved out of a local coarse stone.