Kouros of Apollonas, also called Colossus of Dionysus, a 10.7m 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 northern part of Naxos, on one of Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea.
The statue is a kouros, a type of free-standing statue of a naked young man that dates to the Archaic period of Ancient Greece, around the turn of 7th-6th Centuries BC. It was originally believed to pay homage to Apollo until 1930s, when archaeologists noticed its beard and realized the figure was actually Dionysus. It’s made of rough-hewn marble and is unfinished, thought to be too heavy to transport.
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