Boxer of Quirinal
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The bronze Boxer of Quirinal is a Hellenistic Greek sculpture from the first century B.C. It shows a sitting boxer with cesti. It is one of the two bronzes discovered on the slopes of the Quirinal in 1885. The realism of the portraiture suggests that it is a patricular boxer, with a boxer's scars and broken nose, not a representation of Polydeuces, one of the Dioscuri.
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- Nikolaus Himmelmann, 1998. Herrscher und Athlet : Die Bronzen vom Quirinal
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