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Agrigento: Statue of young soldier (480 BC)

Agrigento: Statue of young soldier (Mus.Agrigento; photo Athena Review 2004)

This well-preserved marble kouros or sculpture of an athletic young man was discovered in 1897 in a cistern in the Rupe Atenea in Agrigento.
It represents the transition from the Late Archaic to Early Classical styles, comparable to the Kritios Boy (490-480 BC) in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The statue is dated to 480 BC.

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	This well-preserved marble kouros or sculpture of an athletic young man was discovered in 1897 in a cistern in the Rupe Atenea in Agrigento. It represents the transition from the Late Archaic to Early Classical styles, comparable to the Kritios Boy (490-480 BC) in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The statue is dated to 480 BC.
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Agrigento: Statue of young soldier (480 BC)

Agrigento: Statue of young soldier (Mus.Agrigento; photo Athena Review 2004)

This well-preserved marble kouros or sculpture of an athletic young man was discovered in 1897 in a cistern in the Rupe Atenea in Agrigento.

It represents the transition from the Late Archaic to Early Classical styles, comparable to the Kritios Boy (490-480 BC) in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The statue is dated to 480 BC.

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