Two wrestlers

A group smaller than life. The followers of Bacchus are here represented in the act of wrestling. Grasping each other by the wrists each one is bending forward to draw his antagonist from his place. This action which exhibits the full play of the muscles and imparts an energetic movement to the limbs is admirably rendered. Both the figures have short tails. This group recalls that of the two wrestlers, so often found on silver coins of Selge, in Pisidia.

Inv. nr. 116. H. 0.77 / 0.88.