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Boxer
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About this work
This boxer raises his arms to pull tight the thongs (now lost) that Greek and Roman boxers wound around their hands for protection. The sinuous body curve and long proportions are characteristic of the late Hellenistic period, when artists created more elongated versions of athletes and other classical figures.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBoxer, 100–30 BCE. Greece, Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty. Bronze. solid cast, with copper inlays; overall: 21 x 11 cm (8 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1985.137
