Figure 346

Annotated detail of copper-alloy inlays. The lips and blood drips are inlaid with a reddish unalloyed copper (orange overlays). A lead-rich copper alloy overlay simulates a swollen cheek contusion of a different color (purple overlay). Boxer at Rest, Greek, Hellenistic period, late 4th–2nd century BCE, H. 128 cm (Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Massimo, Rome, inv. 1055). See .