Greece Kouros of the Sacred Gate postcard

The statue is exposed in Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos. The kouros of theKerameikos cemetery’sSacred Gate, found under an ancient road surface and a channel for diverting water from the Eridanos River. A statue of the archaic period, still beautiful even after 2,500 years, it stands 2.10 metres tall and was found along with a sphinx dating from 560 BC, two marble lions (of which the better preserved of the two dates from the first half of the sixth century BC), and fragments of two marble pillars, one with an Ionian capital and the other with a larger Doric capital. These treasures appeared to be holding up a road surface that bisected Kerameikos.