page_title: Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis
hierarchical_section_title: Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis
caption_attribution_description: English: So-called “Blond Kouros” head, fragment from the statue of a youth (the hips also survive as a fragment). Marble with traces of brown-blond painting on the hair, ca. 490–480 BC. Found on the Acropolis. Acropolis Museum in Athens, 689. H. 25 cm (9 ¾ in.). Français&#160;: Tête dite de l'«&#160;Éphèbe blond&#160;», fragment d'une statue de jeune homme (les hanches ont également survécu à l'état de fragment). Marbre avec traces de peinture brun jaune dans les cheveux, vers 490-480 av. J.-C. Trouvé sur l'Acropole. Athènes, musée de l'Acropole, n° 689. H. 25 cm.
context_page_description: The so-called Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis is the head of a lost marble statue of a young man of ca 480 BC, in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece The head and part of the pelvis were found in 1923 northeast of the museum site on the Acropolis of Athens. It belongs to the late archaic or early classical period. The curly hair points more to the Archaic than the Classical period.
  It measures 25 cm in the vertical, in the horizontal under the ears 12.5 cm and in the depth 22.8 cm.
  This sculpture could have been created by one of the teachers of Phidias, Hegias of Athens or Ageladas of Argos.
  The original blond painting of the curly hair is faded. Only remnants of the paint are visible today.
context_section_description: The so-called  Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis  is the head of a lost marble statue of a young man (Kouros or Ephebe sculpture type) of ca 480 BC, in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece The head and part of the pelvis were found in 1923 northeast of the museum site on the Acropolis of Athens. It belongs to the late archaic or early classical period (Severe style). The curly hair points more to the Archaic than the Classical period.
  It measures 25 cm in the vertical, in the horizontal under the ears 12.5 cm and in the depth 22.8 cm. (Schrader 1939:197). 
  This sculpture could have been created by one of the teachers of Phidias, Hegias of Athens or Ageladas of Argos. 
  The original blond painting of the curly hair is faded. Only remnants of the paint are visible today.
caption: Head of a Blond Kouros (Acropolis Museum, Athens)
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