Cast Gallery catalogue number: C252

Head from a statue of an athlete scraping himself with strigil.

• Plaster cast: Height: unavailable.
• Copy of the head of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is possibly a version of an original created by Lysippos in about 320 BC.
  • was found in Rome, Trastevere, in 1849.
  • is now in Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, Gabinetto dell'Appoxyomenos, inv. 1185.