The so-called “Croatian Apoxyomenos,” depicting an athlete scraping oil off his body with a strigil
The so-called “Croatian Apoxyomenos,” depicting an athlete scraping oil off his body with a strigil (or perhaps cleaning the strigil itself - this is debated). Bronze sculpture with copper inlay, artist unknown; 2nd or 1st cent. BCE. Recovered from the sea around the island of Lošinj, Croatia; now in the Museum of Apoxyomenos, Mali Lošinj. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5. -- source link
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