Scraper - Scraper

Japanese: 《搔き取る人》 - かきとるひと
Scraper - Scraper

…He was a skilled caster and is said to have produced many works, including various portraits of the great king, but no originals that can be said to be his with any certainty remain. A marble statue of an athlete scraping off sweat and dust with a tool called a strigilis, discovered in Trastevere in 1849, is considered to be a Roman copy of the bronze statue of Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (Scraper), which is said to have been placed in front of Agrippa's Baths in the early Roman Empire (Vatican Museum). This statue shows the characteristics of Lysippos' statues, which the ancients described as having a "small head and slender figure." …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "the scooper" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…鋳像を得意とし,大王の各種の肖像をはじめ多数の作品を制作したと伝えられるが,確実に彼のものといえる原作はのこされていない。1849年トラステベレで発見された,身体についた汗やほこりをストリギリスという道具で搔き落としている運動選手を表した大理石像は,ローマ帝政時代初期にアグリッパの浴場の前に据えられていたと伝えられるリュシッポスの青銅像《アポクシュオメノス(搔き取る人)》のローマ時代の模刻だとみなされている(バチカン美術館)。この像は,古代人が〈小さな頭とほっそりした体軀〉と評したリュシッポスの彫像の特徴を示している。…

※「《搔き取る人》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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