Lost wax bronze replica.
The masterpiece was made by the artist Lysippos of Sikon in the year 330 B.C.
It is now conserved in the Vatican Museums, Vatican City.
Apoxyomenos (the "Scraper") is one of the most famous subjects of ancient Greek sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Romans called "strigil".
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