Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 312
enwritten in the presence of the statue: In those days boxers did not yetwear the sharp thong (l[xas 6£us) on each wrist, but boxed with the softstraps GueiAixcus), which they fastened under the hollow of the hand inorder that the fingers might be left bare; these soft straps were thinthongs… … Fig. 52.—Bronze Arm of Statue of a Boxer, found in the Sea offAntikythera. National Museum, Athens. says. These jueiXtxat were used at the great games through the fifthcentury B. C, and were continued in the palaestra in the fourth. Earlyin the latter century the a^alpai mentioned by Plato3 and…
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