Child Boxer

3rd-2nd century BCE (Ptolemaic)

4 cm 8.5 cm 2.2 cm

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The muscularity of the boy's body suggests that he is the child Herakles who was taught boxing skills by Harpalykos of Phanote, the son of Hermes.

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Madame E. Warneck Collection Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1905, no. 152; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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