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CROATIAN APOXYOMENOS (2nd – 1st century B.C.) The antique bronze statue of an athlete, 192 cm tall, taken from the sea bed between the islet of Vele Orjule and the island of Lošinj on 27 April 1999, is the only large bronze found to date on the eastern coast of the Adriatic. It is assumed that it was deposited in the sea at the beginning of the 1st century when it was thrown overboard during bad weather because of the danger of the ship overturning or as a sacrifice to the gods for safe passage through the Osor channel to a prosperous destination/port of call on the north Adriatic. The statue represents an athlete, a young sportsman, at the moment of cleaning oil, dust and sweat from his body with a scraping tool after a competition. During restoration, which lasted 7 years, analysing the material and style of workmanship, the statue was dated from the 2nd – 1st century B.C. while the prototype on which it was made is considerably older, from the middle of the 4th century B.C. From eight well-known variations of the Apoxyomenos prototype (the most famous being the bronze statue from Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, discovered in 1896 in Ephesus), the Lošinj statue is the most perfect and best-preserved. The statue’s sculptor is unknown but the classical beauty and high quality of workmanship testify to a consummate craftsman.
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HRVATSKI APOKSIOMEN (2.–1. st. pr. Antički brončani kip atleta, visok 192 cm, izvađen iz podmorja između otočića Vele Orjule i otoka Lošinja 27. travnja 1999., jedina je za sada pronađena velika bronca na istočnoj obali Jadrana. Pretpostavlja se da je u more dospio početkom 1. stoljeća, kamo su ga tijekom jaka nevremena bacili zbog opasnosti od prevrtanja broda ili kao žrtvu bogovima za siguran nastavak putovanja kroz Osorski kanal u kakvo bogato odredište na sjeveru Jadranu. Kip predstavlja atleta, mladog sportaša u trenutku dok čisti strigil (strugaljka) kojim je sa svoga tijela sastrugao ulje, prašinu i znoj nakon natjecanja. Tijekom restauracije koja je trajala gotovo sedam godina, istraživanjem materijala i stila izrade kip je datiran u 2.–1. st. pr. Kr., a prototip na temelju kojega je izrađen, znatno je stariji, iz sredine 4. st. pr. Od osam do sada poznatih varijacija prototipa Apoksiomena (od kojih je najpoznatiji brončani kip iz Kunsthistorisches Museuma u Beču, otkriven 1896. u Efezu), lošinjski je kip najcjelovitiji i najbolje sačuvan. Autor kipa je nepoznat, no klasična ljepota i vrsnoća izrade govore o vrhunskome majstoru.