The Archaic Kouros Statue in the Archaeological Museum of İzmir

Year 1971, Volume: 35 Issue: 138, 207 - 212, 20.04.1971

Cevdet Bayburtluoğlu

Abstract

The statue, that was found in 1936 in Milet and brought to the Archaeological Museum in Izmir, has been taken case of since that time registered in the invantory book as "a piece of Hellenistic statue" drew our attention during our studies in the depot of the museum in Basmahane. The unresemlance of this piece, that we do not meet in the old and new Milet publications, of the archaic works at first sight is the reason of its being hidden in a depot corner for a long time. After a little cleaning with the appearance of its all archaic characteristics and inscription we set to work to publish it and with the permission of Mr. Hakkı Gültekin, the Director of the Archaeological Museum of Izmir, it has been possible to introduce it to the world of science. I want to present my thanks to Mr. Gültekin who has always been kind and helpful. As it is told above the statue, according to the inventory registrations, was found in Milet, but we do not have a definite idea of its place, stile and time. As the transition of the statue to the museum is in 1936 for sure it is not a finding of excavation. Because in that case, it would have been possible to find an information, though short, in the reports of excavation, about this kouros which can be considered important for the East-Greek sculpture. Our opinion is that the kouros piece is like the other findings of chance that came from the area of Milet.

Keywords

Archaic Sculpture, Ancient Greek Art, İzmir Archaeology Museum, Kouros Statues, Milet, West Anatolia