#apoxyomenos

[thecrankyprofessor]

Praxiteles, Apoxyomenos (the Scraper), Vatican Museums

[kacperabolik]

Croatian Apoxyomenos

Kacper Abolik, 2021

[archaeologs]

Apoxyomenos (athlete scraping his body with a strigil). Bronze. Roman copy of a bronze original by Polykleitos ca. 320 BCE. Inv. No. 129. Vienna, Ephesos Museum. Photo: © 2012. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.

Learn more / Daha fazlası Strigilis: http://www.archaeologs.com/w/strigil/

[romegreeceart]

Croatian Apoxyomenos (scraper)

* A Greek bronze statue, 2nd / 1st century BCE.

* The statue was discovered in 1999 near inhabited islet of  Vele Orjule by a sports diver.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080450/http://www.posta.hr/print.aspx?id=3622&m=2460&p=-1

Credit: Zmaj (own work) / Public domain/Wikimedia

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Apoxyomenos (athlete scraping his body with a strigil).

Roman copy of a bronze original by Polykleitos ca. 320 B.C.

Medium: Bronze

Provenance: Vienna, Ephesos Museum

[marmarinos]

Hellenistic or Roman bronze head of an athlete, dated to the 2nd to 1st centuries BCE, likely after a 4th century BCE original by Lysippos. Currently located in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Image found on Pinterest, from the LA Times. 

[lionofchaeronea]

The so-called “Croatian Apoxyomenos,” depicting an athlete scraping oil off his body with a strigil (or perhaps cleaning the strigil itself - this is debated).  Bronze sculpture with copper inlay, artist unknown; 2nd or 1st cent. BCE.  Recovered from the sea around the island of Lošinj, Croatia; now in the Museum of Apoxyomenos, Mali Lošinj.  Photo credit:  © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

[schau]

Randić-Turato

Museum of Apoxyomenos, Mali Lošinj, 2016