id: 133313 accession number: 1955.684 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.684 updated: 2025-02-09 02:09:58.769000 Athlete Making an Offering, c. 450–425 BCE. Greece, probably from workshop of Locri or Tarentum, Classical Period. Bronze (hollow cast); overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); without tang: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1955.684 title: Athlete Making an Offering title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 450–425 BCE creation date earliest: -450 creation date latest: -425 current location: 102C Greek creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, probably from workshop of Locri or Tarentum, Classical Period technique: bronze (hollow cast) department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); without tang: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: https://medium.com/cma-thinker/ancient-artworks-echo-the-the-origins-of-the-olympic-games-23ceaf9bc37c The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 21 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n20 Lee, Sherman E. "A Bronze from the Age of Pericles." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 2 (1959): 19-24. page number: url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142320. Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. 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Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. page number: Pp. 95-98, cat. 12. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24 Hurwit, Jeffrey M. "The Doryphoros: Looking Backward" in Moon, Warren G., ed. Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 1995. pp. 3-18. page number: Fig. 1.9, referenced p.10 url: Neils, Jenifer, Stephen V Tracy, and Stephen V Tracy. 2003. Tonathenethenathlon : The Games at Athens. Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture Book, No. 25. Athens, Greece: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. page number: Ill. p. 32, fig. 31. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.684/1955.684_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.684/1955.684_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.684/1955.684_full.tif