Borghese Warrior
Copy of a lost Hellenistic original. Originally part of a larger group, the warrior is probably fending off a blow with a shield on his left arm, and would have had a sword in his (restored) right.
The tensile strength of the bronze of the original sculpture would have been well suited to an extended figure like this one. Copied in stone, a support disguised as a tree stump is necessary to stop the legs from breaking under the weight of the sculpture. The taut but supple pose is typical of the Hellenistic period
Paris, Louvre, 527
Transferred to the Museum from the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1884
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 382 (n.7), pl. 134.3
Brunn-Bruckmann: Denkmäler Griechischer und Römischer Skulptur, pl. 75
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 112, no.586
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 894, no.514
Agasias son of Dositheos of Ephesos made [this]
Found at Antium