Head of a kouros
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
Original from Magna Graecia, late 6th - early 5th century B.C.
Material and technique:
Insular marble
Origin:
Purchased in Rome
Inventory:
Inv. MB 80
This head, with its refined hairstyle and hollowed-out eyeballs (in which irises made of a different material would have been inserted), comes from the statue of a kouros. It was made in a workshop in Calabria between the late 6th century B.C. and the early 5th.
