Terracotta figurine of apoxyomenos

The youth is frontally depicted standing. He rests his weight on the right leg, while the left one is relaxed slightly forward. In his right hand he holds a strigil with which he scrapes residues of sweat and dirt off the skin of his left forearm and upper arm, having completed his physical training. The head with the long locks of hair and the gentle smile turns slightly to the right.

Strigils and oil containers formed part of an athlete’s typical equipment. The apoxyomenos figurine is one of the many remote variations of the respective model, the statue rendered by the renowned sculptor Lysippos, which has come down to us only through later copies.