KOUROS (PLURAL: KOUROI) An Archaic statue of a naked young man in a standing pose (figure
24 ).
Figure 23 Stone statue of Egyptian King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and his queen; height 1.422 m, 2490–
2472 BC. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 11.1738.
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