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The bronze Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a Hellenistic Greek sculpture of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his caestus, a type of leather hand-wrap. It has been given various dates within the period of about 330 to 50 BCE. It was excavated in Rome in 1885, and is now in the collection of the National Museum of Rome, normally displayed in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
A cestus or caestus is an ancient battle glove, sometimes used in pankration. They were worn like today’s boxing gloves, but were made with leather strips and sometimes filled with iron plates or fitted with blades or spikes, and used as weapons.
The first cestuses in Ancient Greece were used in boxing-like competitions. Called meilichae (μειλίχαι), these gloves consisted of strips of raw hide tied under the palm, leaving the fingers bare.
The Greeks also invented a variation called the sphaerae (σφαῖραι), which were sewn with small metal balls covered with leather.

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Ο πυγμάχος των Θερμών ή ο αναπαυόμενος πυγμάχος ή ο πυγμάχος του Κυρινάλιου είναι ορειχάλκινο άγαλμα της ελληνιστικής περιόδουτο οποίο σήμερα βρίσκεται στο Εθνικό Μουσείο της Ρώμης.
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Ancient Greek boxing gloves.

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