the palaikastro kouros: a minoan chryselephantine statuette and its aegean bronze age context ||...

PlatesSource: British School at Athens Studies, Vol. 6, THE PALAIKASTRO KOUROS: A MINOANCHRYSELEPHANTINE STATUETTE AND ITS AEGEAN BRONZE AGE CONTEXT (2000)Published by: British School at AthensStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40916628 .

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Gold fragments which can be replaced: (a) the sandals; (b) a sandal strap fragment, showing veining; (c)- (d) the wire borders of the kilt; (c) on lower torso; (d) on hips; (e) the bracelet fragments; (f) the kilt

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Some finds associated with the Kouros: (a)-(d) Egyptian blue with miniature gold discs; (e) possible ivory pommel; (f) ivory rosette; (g) beads of white frit. Drawings at scale 1:1



Plate K

Conjectural reconstruction of the Kouros before destruction, watercolour by M. S. Moak.



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Chryselephantine snake goddess, unprovenanced, H. 16.1 cms. Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; no. 14.863, gift of Mrs W. Scott Fitz.



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the torso after conservation, as first displayed in the Siteia Museum. (AM); (e)-(f) smaller leg fragments before final conservation: (e) left thigh, (f) left leg. (AN)



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The torso during conservation: (a) front; (b) back; (c) left interior section; (d) right interior section; (e) lamellae and commissure in shoulder.



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(a) The arms, showing dowel holes at joins; (b) torso, left fragment showing dowel holes for joins at shoulders; (c) torso with arms, before joining.



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The joins at the waist: (a)- (b) frontal and profile views of the tab which connected torso to waist; (c) tab showing commissure; (d) bottom of torso; (e) reconstruction of waist-to-leg join.



Plate 12

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The joins at the waist: (a) the top of the hips; (b) the bottom of the waist (replica in wood); (c) the waist joining mechanism (hypothetical reconstruction in wood).



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Left leg: sections of the six fragment groups (top views at left, bottom views at right): (a) Jr. Li ; (b) L2; (c) Lja; (d) Ljb; (e) L4a; (f) L^ L$; (g)-(h) sketches showing break lines and tusk orientation, frontal and lateral views.



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Right leg: sections of the five fragment groups (top views at left, bottom views at right): (a) Ri; (b) R2; (c) Rja; (d) Rjb; (e) R4, R5; (f) sketch showing break lines and tusk orientation.



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Detailed views of the feet: (a) left foot (top); (b) foot (underside); (c) right foot fragments.



Plate i 6

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The serpentine head: (a) right profile ; (b) top; (c) front; (d) back.



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The join of the serpentine head to the ivory: (a-b) ivory neck and face: (a) in profile; (b) back view; (c) the interior of the serpentine head; (d) the head in place.



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(a-b) The rock crystal eyes: (a) outside view; (b) inside view; (c) exploded view of eyes, ivory and serpentine head.



Plate 19

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(a) Gold fragments associated with the belt; (b) the same fragments reconstructed hypothetic ally in strips. Scale: (a) 1/1.8; (b) 1/1.4



Plate 20

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The craftsman' s tools: (a)-(b) Minoan saw with rivets at handle (HM2023); (c) saw replica, cutting ivory; (d) knife; (e) replica tools: saws, buck knife, Melian obsidian; local sand, Naxian emery, grinding or hammering

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(a) Dentition of the hippopotamus. Principal tusks: C] /O - lower /upper canines; I} / V - large lower /upper incisors; 77 - small lower incisor (I2 not shown), drawing by O. H. Krzyszkowska, reproduced with permission;

(b) sawcuts in replica of leg, with toothed bronze saw; (c) saw marks on replica; (d)-(e) toolmarks: (d) saw marks on bottom of torso; (e) abrasive marks on tab.



Plate 22

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Vinyl polysiloxane impressions of dowel holes: (a) right leg medial join, single; (b) left leg medial join, double; (c)- (d) left leg medial join, triple, two views. Scale: enlarged, approx. x 6



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The torso of the Kouros.



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(a) The left arm, showing muscles and tendons on dorsal surface; (b) dorsal venous arch of left hand; (c) detail of left hand.



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surviving traces (after Robins içç6,fig. 5.2); (c) Stela ofAmenemhat Nebuy (Abydos, late 12th Dynasty) on hypothetical 18-square grid (after Robins içç6, fig. 10.2g); (d) the Palaikastro Kouros: plaster cast of left palm (from

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Unprovenanced chryselephantine figures: (a) statuette of 'Boy-God' (H. 16.5 cms), Seattle Art Museum no. 57.56, Margaret E . Fuller Fund; (b) statuette of boy (H. 16.8 cms), Ashmole an Museum, Oxford, içj8.6ç2.



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Unprovenanced chryselephantine figures: (a) 'Mistress of Sports' (H. 17.8 cms), courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, no. gji.21.1; (b) standing female (H. 10.4 cms), courtesy of the Walters Art Gallery,

Baltimore, no. ji.iogi, forgery; (c) 'Minoan Goddess' (H. 21.5 cms), courtesy of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, no. y 1. iogo.



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