<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><pres:item xmlns:pres="http://kulturarvsdata.se/presentation#"><pres:version>1.3.0</pres:version><pres:buildDate>2026-05-17</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel>sculpture, skulptur</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>3100881</pres:id><pres:service>objekt</pres:service><pres:organization xml:lang="en">Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet</pres:organization><pres:organizationShort>SMVK-MM</pres:organizationShort><pres:type xml:lang="en">Föremål</pres:type><pres:entityUri>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3100881</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>NM Sk 0059</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="en">Head of an athlete (probably a boxer) slightly tilted to the left. Full, oval face with high, smooth forehead. Almond-shaped eyes with upper and lower eyelids indicated. Thin brow. Full lips. Somewhat swollen ears. Face framed by short, curly hair. On the head a cap of of straps. Possible remains of a fingertip on right side of head. White, coarse-crystalline marble, probably parian. On lower lip, traces of red colour.</pres:description><pres:content>NM Sk 0059, Donated by reverend Ekdahl, c. 1840. Antonsson gives donation year 1870., Roman copy of a bronze statue from the fifth century B.C. attributed to Myron or Pythagoras.
Art historians Walter Amelung and Margareta Bieber identified this type of head as originally belonging to an athlete's body, of the type seen in a sculpture of Emperor Lucius Verus in the Vatican Museum, and that of a youth in Museo Torlonia. Reconstruction photo in Antonsson p 45., Originally part of statue. Right ear, part of cap and nose missing. Face scratched. Lip mended (or damaged?)., “Ett skepp kom lastat”, Medelhavsmuseet, October 18th, 1997 - March 8th, 1998.
Jönköpings läns museum, 1998., Romersk, - M. Bieber in Nationalmusei årsbok, 1927. 
- O. Antonsson (ed.), Antik konst. En konstbok från Nationalmuseum (Årsbok för svenska statens konstsamlingar VI), Stockholm 1958, 43-45 
- Antiken. Konst från den grekisk-romerska kulturvärlden ur svenska samlingar ... (Nationalmusei utställningskatalog 313), Stockholm 1967, 54, n°139.
- A. Andrén, Antik skulptur i svenska samlingar, 1964, Pl. 8., http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&amp;module=collection&amp;objectId=38264&amp;viewType=detailView, Antikens Grekland och Rom, Ett skepp kom lastat, Antikens Grekland och Rom - Lapidariet, 1998.0003, Jönköpings läns museum</pres:content><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="en">Förvärvad</pres:event><pres:nameLabel xml:lang="en">Ekdahl, Nils Johan</pres:nameLabel></pres:context><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="en">Brukad</pres:event><pres:timeLabel xml:lang="en">Roman</pres:timeLabel></pres:context><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="en">Ägd</pres:event><pres:nameLabel xml:lang="en">Nationalmuseum, Stockholm</pres:nameLabel></pres:context><pres:image><pres:mediaType>image/jpeg</pres:mediaType><pres:src type="thumbnail">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3649261/representation</pres:src><pres:src type="lowres">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3649260/representation</pres:src><pres:mediaLicense>http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by</pres:mediaLicense><pres:byline xml:lang="en">Kaneberg, Ove</pres:byline><pres:copyright xml:lang="en">Statens museer för världskultur</pres:copyright></pres:image><pres:image><pres:mediaType>image/jpeg</pres:mediaType><pres:src type="thumbnail">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3953812/image.jpg</pres:src><pres:src type="lowres">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3953811/image.jpg</pres:src><pres:mediaLicense>http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0</pres:mediaLicense><pres:byline xml:lang="en">Kaneberg, Ove</pres:byline><pres:copyright xml:lang="en">Utgången upphovsrätt</pres:copyright></pres:image><pres:references><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3907067</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3909196</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3909273</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3909274</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3914774</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953913</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953661</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953770</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/25118429</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&amp;module=collection&amp;objectId=38264&amp;viewType=detailView</pres:reference></pres:references><pres:representations><pres:representation format="HTML">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3100881</pres:representation><pres:representation format="XML">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3100881</pres:representation><pres:representation format="RDF">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3100881</pres:representation></pres:representations></pres:item>