Apoxyomenos
Also known as The Scraper, The Youth Scraping Himself
thumb|upright|The Vatican Apoxyomenos by Lysippos, in the [[Museo Pio-Clementino, found in Trastevere, 1849. Height: 2.05 metres (6 feet 9 inches)]]
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- Croatian Apoxyomenos
- Gallery
- Notes
- References
thumb|upright|The Vatican Apoxyomenos by Lysippos, in the [[Museo Pio-Clementino, found in Trastevere, 1849. Height: 2.05 metres (6 feet 9 inches)]]
Apoxyomenos (, plural apoxyomenoi: the "Scraper") is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Greeks called a stlengis and the Romans a strigil.