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.