Fig. 54.—Boxing Scenes. From a r.-f. Kylix by Douris. British Museum, London.
Fig. 55.—Boxing and Pankration Scenes. From a r.-f. Kylix. British Museum, London.
We may infer how a Polykleitan statue of a boxer at rest looked, from the Roman copy of one in Kassel.[1706] Here a youth just out of boyhood is represented as standing with the weight of the body resting upon the right leg and the head turned to the right. The forearms are covered with gloves, the right fist being raised for attack and the left for defense.
Fig. 57.—Statue of a Boxer, from Sorrento. By Koblanos of Aphrodisias. Museum of Naples. Another marble statue, representing a boxer in repose, was found in a fragmentary condition in Sorrento in 1888, and is now in the National Museum at Naples (Fig. [57]).[1707] It is inscribed as the work of Koblanos of Aphrodisias in Karia, whom
