Statue of a kouros. Naxian marble, found in Sounion. The statue was a votive offering to Poseidon and stood before his temple. Its over-life-size scale is striking and testifies to the tendency of early Archaic sculptors to create impressive colossal statues, about 600 BC.

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Statue of a kouros. Naxian marble, found in Sounion. The statue was a votive offering to Poseidon and stood before his temple. Its over-life-size scale is striking and testifies to the tendency of early Archaic sculptors to create impressive colossal statues, about 600 BC.

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Statue of a kouros. Naxian marble, found in Sounion. The statue was a votive offering to Poseidon and stood before his temple. Its over-life-size scale is striking and testifies to the tendency of early Archaic sculptors to create impressive colossal statues, about 600 BC.

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