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figure

human history
  • Other Name

    running boy

    runners

    runner

    corridori (Italian)

  • Description

    figure, athlete, bronze, replica of famous statue found at Herculaneum. Museums such as Auckland acquired casts to connect distant colonies with the ancient Classical World of Europe. This is one of six 'Italian bronzes' presented to Auckland Museum in 1937 by Mr E. Earle Vaile.

    It is of one of a pair of similar figures excavated from the enclosed garden of the Villa de Papiri, a country house situated north-west of the city of Herculaneum, destroyed along with Pompeii in the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, 79 AD.

  • Place
    Unknown
  • Accession Number
    1937.115
  • Accession Date
    16 Apr 1937
  • Other Id

    23246.1 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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