Antique bronze statue of an athlete, tall 192 cm, extracted from the seabed between the island and the island of Vele Orjule 27th Lošinj April 1999., is the only large bronze now found on the east coast. It is assumed that the sea came at the beginning of first century, where it was during the strong storms dumped because of the danger of capsizing of the ship or gods as a sacrifice for the safe continuation of the journey through the canal in what Osor rich destination in the northern Adriatic.
The statue represents athletes, young athletes at a time when clean strigil (strugaljka) that from his body sastrugao oil, dust and sweat after the competition. During the restoration, which lasted almost seven years, research material and style of the statue is dated to the second to first Ct. Kr., A prototype based on the housing, is much older, from the mid-fourth Ct. Kr. From eight to known variations of prototype Apoksiomena (most notably a bronze statue from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, discovered in 1896. In Ephesus), Lošinj is a statue of the most complete and best preserved.
The author of the statue is unknown, but the classic beauty and quality of workmanship speak of a consummate craftsman. During the renovation of the Museum in the palace of Kvarner in Mali Losinj, where Apoksiomen will be permanently exhibited.
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