Goell thought that was what made the site interesting, with its colossal sculptures and reliefs of King Antiochus I and the gods.
Or he presents the head with its furrowed brow by itself - emerging from the wall or freestanding, like part of a colossal ancient Roman sculpture (Johnson).
The statue is "one of the very few representatives in Britain of the genre of colossal religious figural sculpture, and it is in outstanding condition".
A whiff of that hustle and bustle comes across in the new Cypriot galleries, which include some 600 objects, from colossal sculptures to poppy-shaped juglets.
The name Angel of the South is now also in more common usage as the official title for a proposed colossal sculpture in Ebbsfleet.
Local dentist Kenneth H. Fox's colossal sculptures are perhaps the most famous in town.
The 600 objects range from colossal sculptures to poppy-shaped juglets (thought to have been used for exporting opium).
On, but not owned by, the estate is a 26-acre woodland containing 80 or so colossal sculptures by British artists.
But with the exception of a few pieces on Thasos itself, including a single colossal unfinished sculpture, no other kouros of this stone has yet been identified.
They planted detonators and high-energy chemical foams behind the colossal paired sculptures of Mohammed and Buddha.