Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis

The so-called blonde head of the Acropolis is the head of a statue or a youth ephebes made ​​of marble and is situated in the Acropolis Museum in Athens ( Inv. 689 ). He was found northeast of the Acropolis Museum in the so-called Persian debris. The height of the head in the axis of the nose is 25 cm, width 12.5 cm below the earlobe. Depth of the chin to the hole in the vertebral 22.8 cm (see Schrader, p 197).

These 480 BC crafted sculpture might come from a teacher of Phidias. These in turn were the Athenians Hegias and Hageladas of Argos.

The original blond color curly hair has faded. Only ink residues on the surface are obtained. The hairs have almost even more attention to the Archaic period, as is the case at the same time as, the Severe style attributable to so-called Kritios - boy.