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Now in the National Museum, Rome, this Greek sculpture of a boxer (Pugilist) is from the 1st century BC and signed by Apollonius. This single figure may actually be from an original group of three sculptures. If so, the statue was a representation of Amycus, king of the Bebryces, who as a pugilist has been in a bout with the divine Pollux, himself an excellent boxer. The two figures to whom Amycus is raising his head would have been the Dioscuri: Pollux and his twin brother Castor. The wearied expression on his face and aged body are characteristic of newfound emotional content in Late Greek / Hellenistic statuary. Made from bonded carrara marble, marble base, 14.5"H x 7"W x 10"D.

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