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A Statuette of the Discobolus: a note
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2015
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This short note describes a marble statuette of the Discobolus recently discovered north of Wardana ez-Zeitouna in Cyrenaica, evidently a reduced size copy of the famous statue by Myron. The present location of the statuette is unknown.
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1 About five kilometres north of Wardana ez-Zeitouna and a little west of the cave of el-Mgarranet (famous for its prehistoric drawings). I was able to make a sketch but unfortunately did not photograph it. Its present location is not known to me.
2 Dr Susan Walker of the British Museum informs me that there is a reduced size torso in Vienna but not a miniature; see Vanhove, D. (ed.), Le Sport dans la Grèce Antique, Ghent (1992), no. 167Google Scholar.
3 On Myron's Discobolus see in general Richter, G. M., The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, fourth edition, New Haven and London (1970): 161–62 and figs 616-20, including the bronze miniatures in Munich, figs 617-18Google Scholar; for the last see also Maass, M., Griechische und römische Bronzewerke der Antikensammlung, Munich (1979): 36–37, no.15Google Scholar, and Bartmann, E., Ancient Sculptural Copies in Miniature, Leiden (1992): 22–23Google Scholar. On copies of the Vatican Discobolus see Haskell, F. and Penny, N., Taste and the Antique, Yale (1980): 199–202, no. 32Google Scholar. I am grateful to Dr Walker for providing references to books which are not available in Shahat.
4 There is a slight difference between the turn of the pelvis on the left and on the right sides of the body.
5 See Gardner, E. A., A Handbook of Greek Sculpture, London (1924)Google Scholar.
6 Richter, cit. n. 2, figs 616, 617, 620.