The Palaikastro Kouros (Greek: Κούρος του Παλαίκαστρου) is a chryselephantine statuette of a male youth (kouros) excavated in stages in the modern-day...

Moulds of Palaikastro were discovered in October 1899 by a farmer 150 metres (160 yd) northeast of the town of Palaikastro. The Palaikastro Kouros is a carved...

although the oldest cult image from the Greek world, the Minoan Palaikastro Kouros, is highly sophisticated. Many xoana were retained and revered for...

most famously the so-called "Palaikastro Kouros" (not to be confused with the Archaic Kouros statues), from Minoan Palaikastro, c. 1450 BC. It is likely...

mostly in faience, found in the royal palace of Knossos, and the Palaikastro Kouros, in ivory, gold, stone and rock crystal, are famous, but it is possible...

and Hugh Sackett. “The Palaikastro Kouros: the Cretan God as a Young Man”, p. 168-166, Chapter 14 of The Palaikastro Kouros, a Minoan Chryselephantine...

acrolithic and brightly painted. The Palaikastro Kouros is an all but unique find of a chryselephantine statuette of a male (kouros) that may have been a cult image...

JSTOR 593947. MacGillivray, Alexander; Sackett, Hugh (2000). "The Palaikastro Kouros: the Cretan god as a young man". British School at Athens Studies...

consists of Minoan-era finds from Sitia, Zakros, Petra and Palaikastro. Palaikastro Kouros Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism / in Greek ancient-greece...

Whether sacrifices were burned is unclear. The chryselephantine Palaikastro Kouros is the only probable cult image for worship in a shrine that has survived;...

on the site. Idaea MacGillivray, Alexander, and Hugh Sackett. “The Palaikastro Kouros: the Cretan God as a Young Man”, p. 167, British School at Athens...

1450 BC – The Bull-Leaping Fresco, the Pylos Combat Agate, and the Palaikastro Kouros 1500 BC – The Mycenaean palace amphora with octopus, Mask of Agamemnon...

an archeologist credited with being among the discoverers of the Palaikastro Kouros. Sackett attended Merton College at Oxford. As an archeologist, Sackett...

from Petsophas are designated as PK for Palaikastro by Godart and Olivier.[citation needed] The Palaikastro Kouros was found at Roussolakkos, purposefully...

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both the Kouretes (Κουρῆτες) and Cretan Zeus, who was called "the greatest kouros (κοῦρος)", were intimately connected with the transition of boys into manhood...

("boy-Zeus"), often simply the Kouros. In Crete, Zeus was worshipped at a number of caves at Knossos, Ida and Palaikastro. In the Hellenistic period a small...