Seated Athlete

late 4th century BCE-1st century CE (Ptolemaic) H: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm) Citation Source image

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 wit...

Artifact

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4886
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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.
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en
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