Youth of Eretria
The statue of Cleoneikos , usually referred to as the youth of Eretria in archaeological literature , was built towards the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. It shows a deceased young man from Eretria .
Apart from the feet and the lowest parts of the legs, the head, the front neck and the fingers of the right hand, the young man is clad in a himation . With the free fingers that he has placed on the neckline of the himation , he pulls it down a little, otherwise he would be completely wrapped in it except for the feet and head. His body can be seen under the cloak. The left leg is his stand , the right leg his free leg . The left arm is completely wrapped in the robe. On its left side there is a tree stump as a statue support , from which - as Lehmann recognized - practice gloves for fistfight hang down. The head is turned slightly to the left. The oval facial features with the fleshy lips are reproduced in an idealized form. The eyelids and deep-set eyes create a stern effect. The short, curly hair looks slightly disheveled. In several places there are slight manufacturing errors, such as the fingers of the right hand, which have an exaggerated curvature. The base is in the shape of a truncated pyramid.
The execution of this statue is reminiscent of works that are interpreted as portrait statues of Aeschines . On the front of the statue base, which was reunited with the statue in 1995, there is an inscription:
- Κλεόνεικον Λυσάνδρου
- Ἀμφικράτης Λυσάνδρου
- τὸν ἐαυτοῦ φίλον
The statue was donated by an amphicrates for his deceased friend Kleoneikos, the son of Lysandros. The statue of Pentelic marble was found in 1888 in the gymnasium of Eretria on Evia . It becomes in the late second or early first century BC. Dated. The statue is 1.945 meters high, a little over life size, with the base even 2.946 meters high. Today the statue, which is a rare example of the discovery of a marble figure of a clothed high school student in the context of a high school, is in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and has inventory number 244 .
literature
- Stefan Lehmann , the clothed high school student. A new interpretation of the youth of Eretria. In: Antike Kunst Vol. 44, 2001, pp. 18–23, pp. 18–23 with plates 9–13.
- Elena Mango : Kleoneikos, an educated palaistrite - reflections on the “youth of Eretria” . In Sabrina Buzzi u. a. (Ed.): Zona archeologica. Festschrift for Hans Peter Isler on his 60th birthday . Habelt, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7749-3073-2 , pp. 279-288.
- Nikolaos Kaltsas : Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens . The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2002, ISBN 0-89236-686-9 , pp. 314-315.
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Remarks
- ↑ Stefan Lehmann : The clothed high school student. A new interpretation of the youth of Eretria . In: Antike Kunst Vol. 44, 2001, pp. 18–23.
- ↑ See Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) 45, 1219.
- ↑ Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) II² 3924 = IG XII, 9 281 = SEG 30, 1096 .