page_title: Kouros of Apollonas
section_title: Quarry
hierarchical_section_title: Kouros of Apollonas / Quarry
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Naxos, Marmor aus Griechenland mit großen Kristallen English: Naxos Marble, Naxos, Greece
context_page_description: The Kouros of Apollonas, also called the Colossus of Dionysus, is a 10.7 metre tall unfinished statue of light grey Naxian marble with a weight of around 80 tonnes. It is located in an ancient quarry near Apollonas, a small town in the northern part of Naxos, one of the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea. The statue is a kouros dating from Archaic period of Ancient Greece, around the turn of the seventh and sixth centuries BC.
context_section_description: The Kouros of Apollonas is located in an ancient marble quarry which is one of the oldest quarries in Greece. It lies not far from Apollonas on an unpaved road above the village. It is a typical surface quarry, of the sort from which stone objects were cut straight out of the cliff face or ground surface.
caption: Pattern of the large-grained, light grey to blue Naxian marble of the "Alexander" type from Kinidaros [de]
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