The Sabouroff head is a Late Archaic Greek marble sculpture. It is dated to c. 550–525 BC.[1] This head of a Kouros was named after Peter Alexandrovich Saburov, a collector of ancient Greek sculpture and antiquities. It is 23 centimeters in height. The sculpture is currently located in the Antikensammlung Berlin and allegedly from Attica or Aegina.[2] There are conjectures that it may also have been from Caria in Asia Minor.[3]
This marble head may have belonged to a life-size statue. It has been the object of various debates regarding the unusual design of the hair and beard. Men usually had long hair in 6th century Greek statues, but the beard was a common attribute in archaic sculpture. The treatment of the moustache, separate from the beard on the cheeks and chin, is very rare for Greek sculpture and gives an exotic look to the head. The head has been described as "nearer to a portrait than any other work surviving from Archaic Greece" (other than the Boxer Relief in Athens).[4]
sabouroff, head, late, archaic, greek, marble, sculpture, dated, this, head, kouros, named, after, peter, alexandrovich, saburov, collector, ancient, greek, sculpture, antiquities, centimeters, height, sculpture, currently, located, antikensammlung, berlin, al. The Sabouroff head is a Late Archaic Greek marble sculpture It is dated to c 550 525 BC 1 This head of a Kouros was named after Peter Alexandrovich Saburov a collector of ancient Greek sculpture and antiquities It is 23 centimeters in height The sculpture is currently located in the Antikensammlung Berlin and allegedly from Attica or Aegina 2 There are conjectures that it may also have been from Caria in Asia Minor 3 Sabouroff headMaterialMarbleHeight23 cmCreatedc 550 525 BCDiscoveredbefore 1885GreeceDiscovered byGiovanni Belzoni and Henry BeecheyPresent locationBerlin GermanyThis marble head may have belonged to a life size statue It has been the object of various debates regarding the unusual design of the hair and beard Men usually had long hair in 6th century Greek statues but the beard was a common attribute in archaic sculpture The treatment of the moustache separate from the beard on the cheeks and chin is very rare for Greek sculpture and gives an exotic look to the head The head has been described as nearer to a portrait than any other work surviving from Archaic Greece other than the Boxer Relief in Athens 4 Using an optical 3D scanner the cast copy at the Heidelberg University was acquired and analyzed using the GigaMesh Software Framework The geometric measurements using Voronoi cells and Geodesic distances at the high resolution 3D model show an unbalance and a slight tilting of the head indicating that it was part of an equestrian statue 5 6 References edit Snodgrass Anthony M 1981 Archaic Greece The Age of Experiment University of California Press p 182 ISBN 9780520043732 Arachne individual object 80830 Kopf eines bartigen Mannes sog Kopf Sabouroff Berlin Staatliche Museen Antikensammlung Berlin arachne uni koeln de Morris Sarah P 1995 Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art Princeton University Press p 298 ISBN 069100160X Stieber Mary 2010 The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai University of Texas Press p 98 ISBN 9780292773493 Holscher Tonio Kromker Susanne Mara Hubert 2020 Der Kopf Sabouroff in Berlin Zwischen archaologischer Beobachtung und geometrischer Vermessung Gedenkschrift fur Georgios Despinis in German Athens Greece Benaki Museum pp 125 138 ISBN 978 960 476 263 7 ISSN 1109 4109 Voronoi Cells amp Geodesic Distances Sabouroff head on YouTube Analysis using the GigaMesh Software Framework as described by Holscher et al cf doi 10 11588 heidok 00027985 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sabouroff head amp oldid 1211856980, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
