Archaic Sculpture, lecture 2: 7th century BC
Dreros, Crete (late 8th c) 80 cm
‘monumentality’ H.1.78 m
8th c 7th c Monumentality and ‘orientalizing’ Increase in dedications (scale, expense, number) Increase in imported goods
7th c - the ‘Daedalic style’ Mould from Corinth Syrian relief - Astarte, from Corinth Astarte figurines from Crete from Kameiros
‘Daedalic’ style - gold jewellery Rhodes Electrum-gold pendant from Kameiros, Rhodes Near eastern-type heads and motifs: ‘Mistress of Animals’ Imported techniques: granulation
Bronzes and pottery Corinthian aryballos (Louvre), c. 650 Delphi Mantiklos dedication Corinthian aryballos (Louvre), c. 650 Delphi Bronzes and pottery
Wooden lyre support from Samos (H: 14.5 cm), Athens NM, c. 625 BC
SAMOS Strategic location H: 18 cm Strategic location End of 8th c on…: increase in imports from the Orient and Egypt Literary tradition: seafarers
Despotiko near Paros Preserved Height: 25 cm Estimated total height: 65 cm
Olympia, reconstruction of bronze sphyrelaton H. (restored): C. 1.20 m
CRETE Prinias
Prinias
‘Auxerre’ kore (Louvre), from Crete - Limestone sculpture
Eleutherna, cemetery of Orthi Petra
Seated female statue from Eleutherna Lower part of a kore from the cemetery of Orthi Petra, Eleutherna
Wooden statuettes from Crete in Samos H. 24 cm H. 17 cm Wooden statuettes from Crete in Samos
Early large scale sculpture in marble Naxians at Delos and Delphi Relations with Egypt: Hdt: Psammetichos I (664-610) Naucratis Colossal scale Technique of working hard stone Kouros Sphinxes
‘Nikandre’: mid-7th c BC (Athens, NM) ‘Nikandre dedicated me to the far-shooter of arrows -- the excellent daughter of Deinodikes of Naxos, sister of Deinomenes, wife of Phraxos’
Kouros base, dedication by Euthykratidas Delos, inv. A728: ‘Euthykratidas m’anetheke ho Naksios poiesas’ (Euthykratidas the Naxian made me and dedicated me)
Naxian colossus - Delos (H. c. 9 m). By the N. side of the Oikos of the Naxians H. Upper part - 2.20 m. Lower torso: 1.20. Base: 3.47 x 5.15 x 0.70 m FRONT: The Naxians to Apollo (replaced in the 4th c) BACK: ‘I am of the same stone (lithos), statue (andrias) and base (sphetas) Belted kouros - c. 600 BC
Naxian sculpture at Delos late 7th c Delos A 334: Belted kouros Pr. H: 0.68 Delos A 333: Belted kouros from poros ‘oikos’, Pr. H: 0.82 m
Delos, colossal lions (16): L. 2.80m, H: 1.72 m. Dedication of the Naxians late 7th c BC Karnak
Naxian Sphinx at Delphi -- early 6th century Column height: 10 m Sphinx height: 2.10 m
Early marbles: Thera, Samos, Thasos, Athens
Samos Mycenae
Thera H: 2.30 m
Thasos, Rambearer, c. 600-580 BC (unfinished)
ATHENS - early kouroi: 600-580 BC Dipylon head
Sounion kouros