Cast Gallery catalogue number: C097

Discus-thrower.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.79m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is a version of an original bronze of about 400 BC.
  • was restored with a head that does not belong, see C098 for correct head.
  • was found in 1771 by Gavin Hamilton at Tor Columbaro on the Via Appia (near Rome).
  • is now in Rome, Musei Vaticani, Sala della Biga, inv. 2349.