1. Archaic Sculpture, lecture 2: 7th century BC

2. Dreros, Crete (late 8th c)
80 cm

3. ‘monumentality’
H.1.78 m

4. 8th c
7th c
Monumentality and ‘orientalizing’
Increase in dedications (scale, expense, number)
Increase in imported goods

5. 7th c - the ‘Daedalic style’
Mould from Corinth
Syrian relief - Astarte,
from Corinth
Astarte figurines from Crete
from Kameiros

6. ‘Daedalic’ style - gold jewellery
Rhodes
Electrum-gold pendant from Kameiros, Rhodes
Near eastern-type heads and motifs: ‘Mistress of Animals’
Imported techniques: granulation

7. Bronzes and pottery Corinthian aryballos (Louvre), c. 650 Delphi
Mantiklos dedication
Corinthian aryballos (Louvre), c. 650
Delphi
Bronzes and pottery

8. Wooden lyre support from Samos (H: 14.5 cm), Athens NM, c. 625 BC

9. SAMOS Strategic location
H: 18 cm
Strategic location
End of 8th c on…: increase in imports from the Orient and Egypt
Literary tradition: seafarers

10. Despotiko near Paros Preserved Height: 25 cm
Estimated total height: 65 cm

11. Olympia, reconstruction of bronze sphyrelaton
H. (restored): C m

12. CRETE
Prinias

13. Prinias

15. ‘Auxerre’ kore (Louvre), from Crete - Limestone sculpture

16. Eleutherna, cemetery of Orthi Petra

17. Seated female statue
from Eleutherna
Lower part of a kore from the cemetery of
Orthi Petra, Eleutherna

18. Wooden statuettes from Crete in Samos
H. 24 cm
H. 17 cm
Wooden statuettes from Crete in Samos

19. Early large scale sculpture in marble
Naxians at
Delos and Delphi
Relations with Egypt:
Hdt: Psammetichos I ( )
Naucratis
Colossal scale
Technique of working hard stone
Kouros
Sphinxes

20. ‘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’

21. Kouros base, dedication by Euthykratidas Delos, inv. A728:
‘Euthykratidas m’anetheke ho Naksios poiesas’
(Euthykratidas the Naxian made me and dedicated me)

22. Naxian colossus - Delos (H. c. 9 m).
By the N. side of the Oikos of the Naxians
H. Upper part 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

23. 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

24. Delos, colossal lions (16):
L. 2.80m, H: 1.72 m.
Dedication of the Naxians
late 7th c BC
Karnak

25. Naxian Sphinx at Delphi -- early 6th century
Column height: 10 m
Sphinx height: 2.10 m

26. Early marbles: Thera, Samos, Thasos, Athens

27. Samos
Mycenae

28. Thera
H: 2.30 m

29. Thasos, Rambearer,
c BC
(unfinished)

30. ATHENS - early kouroi: 600-580 BC
Dipylon head

33. Sounion kouros