Ἀποξυόμενος - III

Ἀποξυόμενος (Apoxyòmenos – “The Scraper”) is a conventional subject of the ancient Greek sculpture.

The statue of this young athlete holding a container for liquid, differs from the classical iconography of Apoxyòmenos. According to the model created by Lysippos, The Scraper is usually represented in the act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Romans called “strigil”.

 

This marble artwork is a splendid Roman copy of a Greek original dating from the 4th century BC.

 

Greek marble statue

Roman copy

I cent. AD

Greek original 4th cent. BC

Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

 

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