#Croatian Apoxyomenos

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Croatian Apoxyomenos

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Archeohistory

Known as the Croatian Apoxyomenos, this 2200-year-old Greek bronze statue of an athlete was found 45m below water off the coast of Croatia in 1996 and had undergone an extensive restoration process which lasted till 2006.

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Croatian Apoxyomenos

Kacper Abolik, 2021

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The so-called “Croatian Apoxyomenos,” depicting an athlete scraping oil off his body with a strigil (or perhaps cleaning the strigil itself - this is debated).  Bronze sculpture with copper inlay, artist unknown; 2nd or 1st cent. BCE.  Recovered from the sea around the island of Lošinj, Croatia; now in the Museum of Apoxyomenos, Mali Lošinj.  Photo credit:  © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

[m-ellon-collie]

The Croatian Apoxyomenos is an Ancient Greek statue cast in bronze in the 2nd or 1st century BC; it was discovered in 1996 on the bottom of the sea near the Croatian islet of Vele Orjule, southeast of the island of Lošinj.

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Statue of Apoxyomenos lying 40m beneath the surface of the Adriatic Sea, close to Lošinj, a Croatian island.

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The restoration of the head of the Croatian Apoxymenos discovered on the island of Lošinj

The Croatian Apoxyomenos is one of the rare preserved Greek statues which used to adorn Greek temples and cities, especially their training grounds (gymnasion, palaistra). The statue was raised from the sea in the vicinity of the islet of Vele Orjule near Lošinj, in 1999. An apoxyomenos, literally translated as ‘scraper’, is the name given to an ancient Greek sculpture of an athlete depicted in the act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a small curved instrument after exercising. There are eight known examples, including a bronze excavated in Ephesus (Turkey) and now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), a marble in the Vatican museums (Rome) and a bronze head in the Kimball Art Musem in Forth Worth (USA). The Croatian example is not only the most complete one of its kind, many scholars agree it is by far the finest of all known examples.

It is generally thought that the Croatian statue is most likely a Hellenistic or Roman copy of an original that was probably made during the fourth century BC. The detail on the statue is exquisite, including red copper inlaid lips and nipples, and all the more amazing given that bronzes such as this are rare. Bronze statues like this did not survive antiquity as they were melted down to make dishes, weapons, tools and coins. After the Croatian Apoxyomenos was raised from the sea in 1999, it was extensively restored. It was not publicly displayed until 2006.

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croatian apoxyomenos

4th century BCE

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Croatian Apoxyomenos (scraper)

* A Greek bronze statue, 2nd / 1st century BCE.

* The statue was discovered in 1999 near inhabited islet of  Vele Orjule by a sports diver.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080450/http://www.posta.hr/print.aspx?id=3622&m=2460&p=-1

Credit: Zmaj (own work) / Public domain/Wikimedia

[ancientworld]

📌 Croatian Apoxymenos, Mali Lošinj 🇭🇷⁣ ⁣ 👉The Croatian Apoxyomenos (Croatian: Hrvatski Apoksiomen) is an Ancient Greek statue cast in bronze in the 2nd or 1st century BC; it was discovered in 1996 on the bottom of the sea near the Croatian islet of Vele Orjule, southeast of the island of Lošinj. It represents an athlete – Apoxyomenos ('the Scraper') – in the act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument called a strigil.⁣ ⁣ 👉After the Croatian Apoxyomenos was raised from the sea in 1999, it was extensively restored. It was not publicly displayed until 2006. It is the most complete and best preserved among eight known Apoxyomenos statues.⁣ ⁣ 👉When brought from the sea, Apoxyomenos was covered with marine organisms which had adhered to it. Scientists did not use chemical agents to remove them: instead, only mechanical precision hand tools (and the occasional machine) were used in the conservation process, which was the first of its kind in Croatia. Cracks and breaks were repaired, and a specially designed construction that supported the whole figure from the inside was made.⁣ - - - ⁣⁣⁣#parthenon#alexanderthegreat #athens #rhodes#hellas #fyp #learning #ancientarcheology #archeology#war#italy #acropolis #religion #photography#photooftheday #love #instagood #beutiful#colloseum#olympics #theatre #romanempire#crete#rome #italy #maps #colony #egypt #alexanderthegreat #lebanon #beirut #croatia ⁣ (at Mali Losinj) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjWhsdAdBS/?igshid=hwza08v5h59b

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The Croatian Apoxyomenos is an Ancient Greek statue cast in bronze in the 2nd or 1st century B.C.; it was discovered in 1996 on the bottom of the sea near the Croatian islet of Vele Orjule, southeast of the island of Lošinj. It represents an athlete – Apoxyomenos ('the Scraper') – in the act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument called a strigil.

After the Croatian Apoxyomenos was raised from the sea in 1999, it was extensively restored. It was not publicly displayed until 2006. It is the most complete and best preserved among eight known Apoxyomenos statues.

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The Croatian Apoxyomenos

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The Croatian Apoxyomenos being installed in its own museum 🇭🇷

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Known as the Croatian Apoxyomenos, this 2200-year-old Greek bronze statue of an athlete was found 45m below water off the coast of Croatia in 1996, and had undergone an extensive restoration process which lasted till 2006. [1080 x 1788]

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The Croatian Apoxyomenos is a bronze statue dating back to the 2nd century BC

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The Croatian Apoxyomenos

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