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similar to the Munich statue, but hardly a replica. It probably 
goes back to an original by an Attic master of the end of the fifth 
or beginning of the fourth century B.C. Other under life-size stat- 
ues related to this torso show the same motive.! A black-marble 
statue found at Porto d’Anzio in 1758, and now in the Glyptothek,’ 
has the Polykleitan standing motive. ‘The left arm, which is stretched 
out, holds an oil flask in the hand, while the right arm is lowered. ‘The 
band, which the position of the fingers shows that the right hand prob- 
ably held, indicates it is the statue of a victor. A bronze statuette 
from South Italy, now in the British Museum,’ represents a nude 
youth holding an alabastron in his right hand, while the left has 
the palm open to receive the oil. ‘The hair fashion (kpwB8tdos) seems 
to point to an Attic sculptor of about 470 B.C.4 The same motive 
is found on terra-cotta statuettes from Myrina,®* on reliefs,®> and on 
gems.’ 
OIL-SCRAPING. 
Another ordinary palzestra motive was employed in representing 
the athlete after the contest, scraping oil and dirt from his body 
and arms with the scraping-blade or strigil (orAeyyis, strigilis).® 
This motive is not uncommon on r.-f. vase-paintings of the fifth cen- 
1One in Turin, F. W., 464; Duetschke, IV, no. 82; two statuettes in the Vatican 
(Braccio Nuovo), discussed by Bloch in R. M., VII, 1892, pp. 93 f.; Helbig, Guide, nos. 42 
and 44, 
2Furtw.-Wolters, Beschr. d. Glypt.,? no. 458; Clarac, Pl. 858, 2175; Furtw., Mp., pp. 263 f.; 
Mw., pp. 473f. It is 1.54 meters high. Areplicaisinthe Vatican: see Furtwaengler, /. c.; we 
shall treat it later in reference to the statue of the pentathlete Pythokles; Hyde, 70; Foerster, 
295; Inschr. v. Ol., 162-3; see infra, p. 144 and n. 4. 
3B. M. Bronzes, no. 514, on p. 71, and Pl. XVI; Specimens, I, Pl. 15; Reinach, Rép., II, 
91, 7; Mon. gr., II, no. 23, Pl. XV and p. 1 (ascribing it to the Argive school). It forms the 
basis for a mirror. 
4Furtwaengler, Sitzb. Muen. Akad., 1897, II, pp. 129 f. and Pl. 6 (influence of Kalamis). 
5B. C. H., X, 1886, pp. 393 f. (S. Reinach) and Pl. XII, 3 (this should be numbered XIV, 4; 
see text); Pottier et Reinach, Nécrop. de Myrina, Pl. XLI, 3, pp. 450f. It is 0.205 meter high. 
SF. g.. F. W., 1798; relief found in 1830 in Hermione, now in Athens; it is of the second 
or third century B. C. 
TE. g.,on the stone of Gnaios: Jd., III, 1888, pp. 315 f.,no. 3; Pl. X,no. 12; Furtwaengler, 
Die antiken Gemmen, 1900, Pl. L, no. 9, and Vol. II, p. 241; also on the gem pictured by Toel- 
ken, Erklaer. Verzeichn. d. ant. vertieft geschnittenen Steine d. preuss. Gemmensammlung, 1835, 
Klasse VI, 107 (= Die ant. Gemmen, P|. XLIV, no. 24, and Vol. II, pp. 213); Furtwaengler, Mp., 
p. 260, n. 6, and Mw., p. 468, n. 4, who mentions it, believes that these gems correspond more 
nearly with the Dresden than with the Petworth athlete type. 
8The strigil was a curved blade hollowed out inside with both edges sharp; the general 
orm remained largely the same from the sixth century B. C., down into Roman days, though 
the curve and the handle changed. The commonest were of bronze or iron: see Dar.-Sagl., 
IV, 2, pp. 1532 f., s. v. strigilis (S. Dorigny); K. Friederichs, Kleinere Kunst und Industrie 1m 
Altertum, 1871, pp. 88 f. Examples in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, are given by 
Richter, in Gk., Etr. and Rom. Bronzes, nos. 855 f.; others (strigils and handles) are in the 
British Museum: B. VM. Bronzes, nos. 320-326, 665, and 2420-2454, and figs. 74-75, p. 319; on 
the operation, see Kuppers, Der Apoxyomenos des Lysippos, 1874. 
