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The monument was made entirely of marble and reached 12.45 meters in height. The monument created awe to the visitors and constituted a typical example of Naxian sculpture in its peak period, i.e. in the sixth century B.C. On the base there was an inscription dated to 328-327 B.C., renewing the promanteia for the Naxians:
The Colossus of the Naxians is a kouros statue made of Naxian marble which was about 9 metres high, [1] now located in the Museum on Delos and originally from one of the islands of the Cyclades. The colossus is an example of archaic monumental sculpture and dates to the end of the seventh century BC.
Statue of a Naxian marble Kouros found at Ancient Thera and on display in the National Archaeological Museum Athens. Naxian marble is a large-crystaled white marble which is quarried from the Cycladic Island of Naxos in Greece. It was among the most significant types of marble for ancient Greece and it continues to be quarried in modern times.
The Kouros of Apollonas, also called the Colossus of Dionysus, is a 10.7 metre [1] tall unfinished statue of light grey Naxian marble with a weight of around 80 tonnes. It is located in an ancient quarry near Apollonas [ de ] , a small town in the northern part of Naxos , one of the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea .
Sounion Kouros (c. 600 BCE) at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.The Sounion Kouros is an early archaic Greek statue of a naked young man or kouros (Ancient Greek κοῦρος, plural kouroi) carved in marble from the island of Naxos around 600 BCE.
The Archaeological Museum of Delos (Greek: Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Δήλου) is a museum on the island of Delos, near Mykonos in the South Aegean, Greece.. It is noted for its extensive collection of statues unearthed in the surrounding area of the ancient site, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Si
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The Dedication of Nikandre is a Greek marble sculpture, made approximately around 650 BCE, held in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece (Inv. 1). Nikandre, a woman from the island of Naxos , dedicated the statue in the temple of Artemis at Delos , the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.