Apollo of Tenea
The grave statue of a youth from Tenea in Greece , known as Kouros of Tenea or Apollo of Tenea , is under inventory number 168 in the Glyptothek in Munich .
The 1.53 meter high archaic kouros was found in the northeast of the Peloponnese around 560 BC. Created. The statue, made of Parian marble , was found about twenty kilometers south of Corinth in 1846 , at the archaeological site of ancient Tenea. The work of art was acquired by the Glyptothek in 1853.
literature
- Marion Meyer , Nora Brüggemann: Kore and Kouros. Consecrations for the gods (= Viennese research on archeology. Volume 10). Phoibos Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-901232-80-X , p. 209 No. 335.
- Werner Fuchs , Josef Floren , The Greek sculpture. Volume 1: The geometric and archaic sculpture ( handbook of archeology ). CH Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-31718-9 , p. 90. 188-189 plate 14.2; 15.1.
- Gisela MA Richter : Kouroi, Archaic Greek Youths. A Study of the Development of the Kouros Type in Greek Sculpture. Phaidon, London 1960, p. 84 No. 73 Figs. 245–250.
Web links
Commons : Apoll von Tenea - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Statue of a kouros, so-called kouros of Tenea in the Arachne archaeological database
- Kuros von Tenea: 3D model in the culture portal bavarikon