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Source Description
This figure’s hairstyle and clearly damaged ears (often described as “cauliflower ears,” the likely result of sustained trauma to the head) indicate he is an athlete. Possibly a wrestler or a boxer, he reclines wearily, perhaps after a match. His eyes and tongue are inlaid with silver.
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Document identity
localId
4886
label
Seated Athlete
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
5
Source metadata
id
4886
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Seated Athlete
description
This figure’s hairstyle and clearly damaged ears (often described as “cauliflower ears,” the likely result of sustained trauma to the head) indicate he is an athlete. Possibly a wrestler or a boxer, he reclines wearily, perhaps after a match. His eyes and tongue are inlaid with silver.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Kharbia, Lower Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
late 4th century BCE-1st century CE (Ptolemaic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
statuettes (statues)
pedestals
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5
pageCount
5
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
med
bronze, silver inlays; block: marble
creator_ids
6182
6256
collection_ids
GRC
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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photo
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photo
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photo
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photo
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photo
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