Head Sabouroff

The head of Sabouroff , c. 550 to 525 BC. Chr.

The head Sabouroff is an important representative of the Greek marble sculpture from the late Archaic . The head is in the period from about 550 to 525 BC. Dated and has a height of 23 cm.

It is named after the Russian diplomat Pyotr Alexandrowitsch Saburow , to whose collection of antiquities the head formerly belonged. The portrait supposedly comes from Attica or Aegina and has been in the Antikensammlung in Berlin since 1884 . Another assumption is that the head came from Caria in Asia Minor .

This head is likely part of a life-size statue and has sparked a number of discussions about the unusual design of the hair and beard. Greek statues of men had until around the middle of the 6th century BC. Typically long hair, which was then increasingly replaced by short hairstyles. The beard, on the other hand, is a common attribute of archaic sculptures and a sign of the age of the person depicted. The separate elaboration of the mustache independently of the beard on the cheeks and chin is very rare in representations of the archaic period, which creates an unusual appearance. In terms of design, the head is much closer to a portrait than any other work from this period and is very different from the boxer's stele from Kerameikos, which is roughly the same age .

At Heidelberg University , a plaster cast was measured with a high-resolution optical 3D scanner and analyzed with the GigaMesh software framework with the help of Voronoi cells and geodetic distances - also known as Thiessen polygons . These measurements show an asymmetry and a slight tilt of the head, as is common for equestrian statues .

Individual evidence

^ Anthony M. Snodgrass: Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment ( en ). University of California Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-520-04373-2 , p. 182.
↑ Arachne - individual object 80830: head of a bearded man (so-called head Sabouroff.) - Berlin State Museums, Collection of Classical Antiquities Berlin .
^ Sarah P. Morris: Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art . Princeton University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-691-00160-X , p. 298.
^ Mary Stieber: The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai . University of Texas Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-77349-3 , p. 98.
^ Tonio Hölscher , Susanne Krömker, Hubert Mara: The head Sabouroff in Berlin: Between archaeological observation and geometrical measurement. In: Benaki Museum (ed.): Commemorative publication for Georgios Despinis. Benaki Museum, Athens (in press)
↑ Voronoi Cells & Geodesic Distances - Sabouroff head on YouTube . Analysis with the GigaMesh software framework as in Hölscher u. a. described, s. doi: 10.11588 / heidok.00027985 .

Web links

Head of a bearded man (so-called head Sabouroff) in the Arachne archaeological database

[Snodgrass81-1] Anthony M. Snodgrass: Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment ( en ). University of California Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-520-04373-2 , p. 182.

[Arachne_80830-2] Arachne - individual object 80830: head of a bearded man (so-called head Sabouroff.) - Berlin State Museums, Collection of Classical Antiquities Berlin .

[Morris95-3] Sarah P. Morris: Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art . Princeton University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-691-00160-X , p. 298.

[Stieber10-4] Mary Stieber: The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai . University of Texas Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-77349-3 , p. 98.

[Hoelscher20a-5] Tonio Hölscher , Susanne Krömker, Hubert Mara: The head Sabouroff in Berlin: Between archaeological observation and geometrical measurement. In: Benaki Museum (ed.): Commemorative publication for Georgios Despinis. Benaki Museum, Athens (in press)

[Hoelscher20b-6] Voronoi Cells & Geodesic Distances - Sabouroff head on YouTube . Analysis with the GigaMesh software framework as in Hölscher u. a. described, s. doi: 10.11588 / heidok.00027985 .