Cast Gallery catalogue number: C025
Athlete throwing a discus.
- Plaster cast: Height: 1.69m.
- The cast is composed of a cast of a marble head placed on a cast of a separate marble body.
- The marble head:
- is a version of the head of the original bronze Diskobolos made by Myron in about 450-440 BC.
- is now in Rome, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, inv. 126371.
- The marble body:
- is a version of the original bronze Diskobolos made by Myron in about 450-440 BC.
- was found in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1791.
- is now in Rome, Musei Vaticani, Sala della Biga, inv. 2346.