Head of a Kouros from the Hinterland of Tarsus Belonging to the Period of the Syennessis Dynasty

Kaplan, Deniz | Durugönül, Serra

Apart from the head discussed in this article, there is no other kouros belonging to the Archaic Period known from Tarsus. The fact that the closest examples of the Tarsus head are found among the Cypriot finds points out to connections between the two geographies. This is in fact not surprising because similarities can be mentioned also for Archaic figurines or ceramics from Cilicia. Moreover, the heads, to which the head from Tarsus bears the strongest resemblance, are from Idalion (Dhali), Kition, Golgoi and Vouni, from where the limestone votive statues dating between the years of 520 and 480 BC are obtained the most. In comparison to these parallels, the Tarsus head is dated according to the chronology of the Archaic Cypriot Statuary to the end of the ‘Eastern and Western Neo-Cypriot ...