The “Sacred Gate Kouros” - I

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The “Sacred Gate Kouros” - I
The “Sacred Gate Kouros” - I

The “Sacred Gate Kouros” is a late Daedalic marble sculpture from the Sacred Gate area. The Daedalic sculptural style, greatly influenced by the Near East, gained popularity during the early Archaic period of ancient Greece.
In 2002 spring , during excavations near one of the gates of ancient Athens, the Sacred Gate in the Kerameikos area, a startling find was made under the Sacred Road, Iera Odos, which led from Athens to the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis: a cache of Archaic marble sculptures, which originally had stood on grave precincts of the Athenian aristocracy, had been destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC and buried under the road when the Sacred Gate was erected.
The debris comprised this almost complete statue of a kouros: a work of the first great marble sculptor of Athens, the so-called Dipylon Master (named after a kouros head found in 1916 in the Diplyon gate). Near this amazing sculpture the archaeologists found the statues of a lion and of a sphinx.

Early archaic Greek sculpture
600 – 590 BC
Attibuted to The Dipylon Gate Sculptor
Athens, Keramikos Museum – Inv. No. P 1700

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