Discobolos (restored)
Discobolos (restored)
Name: Discobolos of MyronMaterial: Cast (plaster of Paris)
Format: Statue
Dimensions: 1.25 high
Museum: By permission of the Museo dell’Arte Classica, Sapienza University, Rome
Museum inventory number: 278
Museum of original: Reconstruction by G.E. Rizzo in the Museo dell’Arte Classica on the basis of casts of copies in Palazzo Massimo, Rome (Lancellotti head), Palazzo Massimo, Rome (Castelporziano torso), Casa Buonarroti (arm)
More information on the website of Arachne, the central object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) (Dicobolos Lancellotti)
Bibliography: M.L. Morricone, Il Museo dei Gessi dell’Università di Roma (1981) 12-13
Photographer /modeler: Carter Conaway
Restoration by: Mohamed Abdelaziz
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