Unfinished Kouros in Pentelic Marble (Illustration)

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by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 02 October 2016

Unfinished Kouros in Pentelic Marble — The unfinished state of the sculpture (statuette of a nude young male) reveals how the basic shape for this type of standing figure was 1st "roughed out" with a point. Archaic Greek, 6th century BCE. Found in the quarry at Stamato, Vouni, Mt. Pentelikon, near Athens, Greece. (The British Museum, London).

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Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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