238 VICTORS STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
of the Museo delle Terme (Fig. 53). Here a close-fitting glove covers 
each forearm, leaving the upper joints of the fingers free and the palm 
open. It extends to above the wrist and ends in arim of fur. Over it 
are drawn three thick bands of leather, which cover the first joints of 
the fingers and are fastened together on the outside of the hands with 
metal clasps. A soft pad keeps these bands from chafing the fingers. 
They are kept in place and the wrists are strengthened by two narrow 

Fic. 53.—Forearm with Glove. From the Statue of 
the Seated Boxer (Pl. 16). Museo delle Terme, 
Rome. 
straps which are interlaced several times around hand and wrist. 
Similar gloves appear on the Sorrento boxer in Naples (Fig. 57),! on the 
bronze forearm of a statue from Herculaneum in Naples,” on a left fist 
found in 1887 in the arena at Verona,’ and on many other statues and 
fragments. The last representation in art of this sort of glove appears 
on the Roman relief in the Lateran, which dates from the time of 
Trajan, and represents a fight between two pugilists.4 The metal 

1Juethner, p. 78, fig. 63; Gardiner, p. 409, fig. 137. For this and the delle Terme glove, see 
Huelsen, R. M., IV, 1889, pp. 175 f. 
*Juethner, p. 79, fig. 64; Antichi di Ercolano, Bronzi, II, pp. 411 f. 
In the Museo Civico there; mentioned by Juethner, p. 78. 
“Helbig, Fuehrer, 11, 1145; Guide, 625; Baum., I, p. 524, fig. 566; Juethner, p. 85, fig. 68. 
