Kroisos Kouros
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The Kroisos Kouros is a kouros from Anavyssos in Attica which performed a function as a Grave Marker. It is dated to c. 540-515BC, made of marble and stands 1.95m high. It is now situated in the National Museum, Athens.
The inscription on the base of the statue reads: "Stop and show pity beside the marker of Kroisos, dead, whom once in battle's front rank raging Ares destroyed."
The Kroisos Kouros is central to the debate on kouroi and is thought of as a symbolic representation of a body, not a naturalistic one. It embodies the ideal of the male warrior "en promachois" or "in the front line".
