A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 74
Fig. 50.—Diskos of Exoidas (No. 157).Diam. OS in. 62 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. and races in full armour depicted. A specimen (B 134 in the SecondVase Room) shows four athletes engaged in four out of the fivecontests of the pentathlon (cf. also B 361 (No. 159) in this Case). … oo 5 00 o o w CO N o n >o 1—1 Boxing, one of the7most ancient contests (see above, fig. 47),was long practised at the games with gloves of ox-hide, which wastorn into long strips and bound round the hand. Such wrappings,like modern boxing-gloves, were intended rather to protect the wearerthan to…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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