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The Anavysos Kouros

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Alex Philadelpheus
Alex Philadelpheus
Affiliation:
National Museum of Athens
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Extract

Early in August 1937 the fragments of a marble Kouros were conveyed in three packing-cases to the National Museum at Athens from Paris, where Greek police officials had received it from M. Roussos, an antique dealer who had been resident in that city for some time. It was subsequently confirmed that this statue had been smuggled out of Greece by sea a few years ago from Anavysos near Laurion, a district whose sparsely populated coast-line has been for years the scene of a systematic traffic in antiques.

Type
Research Article
Information
Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 36 , November 1936 , pp. 1 - 4
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1936

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References

page 1 note 1 For the Anavysos excavations see Praktika 1911, pp. 110–131.

page 2 note 1 By M. Andreas Panayotakis of the National Museum at Athens, who has be responsible for so many reconstructions of ancient works of art, both in bronze and marble.

page 2 note 2 Since this article and the illustrations were put into print, the missing parts of the left arm, thumb and forefinger, and two small fragments missing from the left elbow a knee-cap have been recovered from Paris and re-incorporated in the statue.

page 2 note 3 I am indebted to Mr. Gerard M. Young, Director of the British School at Athens, the excellent photographs which accompany this article, as also for the translation of it.