Apollonius, Boxer at Rest, c. 100 B.C.E.

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The boxer of Quirinal, also known as the Terme Boxer, is a Greek sculpture dated around 330 BC of a sitting boxer with Cestus, a type of leather hand wrap for non-lethal fighting. For extreme fighting, Hellenes studded them with metal, or even fitted with iron plates for lethal damage in hand-to-hand combat. It is one of the two unrelated bronzes (the other being the unidentified Hellenistic Ruler) which were said to be taken by the Romans from Hellas during its conquest. Both, and many others,

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