Cast Gallery catalogue number: C025

Athlete throwing a discus.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.69m.
• The cast is composed of a cast of a marble head placed on a cast of a separate marble body.
• The marble head:
  • is a version of the head of the original bronze Diskobolos made by Myron in about 450-440 BC.
  • is now in Rome, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, inv. 126371.
• The marble body:
  • is a version of the original bronze Diskobolos made by Myron in about 450-440 BC.
  • was found in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1791.
  • is now in Rome, Musei Vaticani, Sala della Biga, inv. 2346.