Discobolus of Castelporziano
Parian marble. Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a bronze Greek original by Myron of the mid-5th cent. BCE. Inv. No. 56039.Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle TermePhoto by Ilya Shurygin

Discobolus of Castelporziano.

Parian marble. Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a bronze Greek original by Myron of the mid-5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 56039.

Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
(Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme).

Origin:
From Castelporziano, the ancient Porcigliano, Villa Reale; found in the ruins of a villa of the beginning of the Imperial period in 1906.
Credits:
© 2015. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Info: museum annotation.
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