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The Partial Historians

Greek bronze statue of an athlete ~ c. 330 BCE

This bronze was discovered in fragments in 1896. The pieces revealed a classic pose of scraping off the sweat after a heavy session at the palaestra!

📍Ephesus
🏛 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Description from the museum: “It depicts an athlete who, after completing his workout in the gymnasium’s palaestra, is shown scraping off sweat, sand and the oil he had slathered himself with with a στλεγγίς (strigilis). We see him running his left thumb over the (now lost) scraper to clean it. Both the apparently spontaneous “snapshot” of someone lost in thought, and stylistic details point to a 4th-century BC model. Recently it has been suggested that the statue is a copy of Lysippos’ celebrated “Apoxymenos” (the scraper).”
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Jun 02, 2024, 11:44 AM·Public·Toot!
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