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P L A T E 8 2 Statue of a Victorious Youth (Getty bronze athlete), Greek, ca. 3 0 0 B . C . E . Hollow
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cast bronze with copper inlays, before mechanical cleaning and conservation, : 151.5 cm. The
statue is shown here shortly after it was found, heavily encrusted with corrosion, sediment,
and marine organisms, a common result of marine burial. Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum
(77.AB.30) .
P L A T E 8 3 Statue shown in P L A T E 8 2 , after mechanical cleaning and conservation, reveal­
ing itself to be one of the finest bronze figures from the last decades of fourth-century B . C . E .
Greece. The patina is cuprite overlaid with malachite and azurite and with occasional patches
of clinoatacamite.

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