Cast of the Terme Boxer from the Quirinal Hill, Rome
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Details
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Title
Cast of the Terme Boxer from the Quirinal Hill, Rome
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 19th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
128 x 109 cm estimated (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1894.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.B.129
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Catalogue text
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. 1055.
Found in 1885 in the area of the Convent of S. Silvestro on Via 4 Novembre on the Quirinal Hill (the area of the Baths of Constantine) in Rome, Italy.
Seated naked boxer with short cropped hair, full beard, cauliflower ears, and numerous facial scars. He wears boxing gloves (caestus).In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Further reading
Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Katherine Wodehouse (general editor), The Ashmolean Museum Crossing Cultures Crossing Time (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2014), p.65, illus. p.65
