Archaeologia Adriatica, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2008.
Original scientific paper
Bronze Statuette of an Athlete of the Polykleitos' "Discophoros" Type from Petrinja
Ante Rendić-Miočević
; Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Abstract
Around twenty years ago the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb purchased a bronze statuette of an athlete, subsequently shown to originate from Petrinja and to have been accidentally discovered during digging of a water pipe trench in the local barracks. The statuette features a high level of artistic workmanship and it certainly ranks among the most interesting pieces of small figurative bronze sculpture kept in the Museum. It is relatively well preserved, although it lacks almost the entire left arm, the object (a disc?) that the athlete in all likelihood held on the palm of his right hand, as well as the metal pedestal. The archetype on which the Discophoros from Petrinja was modeled without any doubt comes from Classical Greece, from approximately 460 B.C. The bronze replica of Discophoros from Petrinja, which, like most other replicas, definitely underwent certain modifications when compared with the prototype, should most probably be dated to the first decades of the 1st cent., that is, the Julio-Claudian period.
Keywords
bronze statuette; athlete; Discophoros; Polykleitos; Petrinja
Hrčak ID:
37119
URI
Publication date:
23.5.2009.
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