Youth with Jumping Weights
Unknown Artist
c. 40–70 CE
Medium
marble
Dimensions
84.5 × 39.1 cm
Classification
Sculpture
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, and Anonymous Gift
Accession Number
1985.79
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The hourglass-shaped jumping weights slung over his shoulder, together with the animal-skin punching bag on which he leans, characterize this youth as an athlete. The distinctive haircut, short with one long tress in back, may indicate a childhood vow, perhaps to be trimmed in a future ceremony. Several very similar sculptures exist in other collections, suggesting the existence of a single prototype, now lost.