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Acrobat Performing a Handstand

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This cast bronze acrobat is missing his left hand, right hand and right forearm but was balanced on his hands with his legs and feet pressed together above him. A life-size marble version of this figure at the British Museum shows the acrobat poised in a handstand over a crocodile.

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