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"current_location": "102C Greek",
"title": "Mirror Support: Athlete",
"creation_date": "460\u2013450 BCE",
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"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
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"title": "Stamps: Art in Miniature",
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"title": "Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete",
"description": "Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (July 20-November 28, 2004).",
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"description": "A muscular nude youth strides forward on a square metal plate with his arms outstretched. The plate and the volute decoration that adorns his head suggest that this statuette was the support for a mirror. The youth is likely an athlete, as he holds an alabastron or oil vessel in his right hand. The oil may be an offering to the gods for victory, or to rub onto the skin to protect and beautify his body before an athletic contest. The mirror was made separately and would have been attached to the triangular tang above the athlete\u2019s head.",
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"citation": "Thomas, Renate. Athletenstatuetten der Spatarchaik und des Strengen Stils. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 1981.",
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