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Munich Diadoumenos, frontal view

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Munich Diadoumenos, from left

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Munich Diadoumenos, detail of back and buttocks

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Munich Diadoumenos, back view

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Munich Diadoumenos, right profile

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Munich Diadoumenos, detail of torso, right side

Collection: Munich, Glyptothek
Title: Diadoumenos, Munich replica
Findspot: Found near

Baths of Diocletian, Rome

Summary: Youth tying a fillet around his head
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue
Category: Original/copies
Style: High Classical
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Copy
Original: Diadoumenos
Date: ca. 100 AD - ca. 150 AD
Dimensions:

H 1.14 m

Region: Latium
Period: Hadrianic?


Subject Description:

Torso of a nude youth, leaning on his left leg, and raising at least his right arm above his head.

Date Description:

Vierneisel-Schlörb suggests that the copy may have dated to the Hadrianic period.

Condition: Intact

Condition Description:

Missing head, both arms, left shoulder, both lower legs, and right knee. Breaks were smoothed for earlier restorations, which are now removed.

Material Description: Parian marble (Vierneisel-Schlörb

Collection History:

From the Villa Ridolfi (formerly Strozzi), by the Baths of Diocletian (where it may have originated). Acquired in 1812 in Rome.

Sources Used:

Vierneisel-Schlörb 1979, 188-97 no. 17, pls. 85-88