Relief with representation of a hoplitodromos – Odysseys

From the area of Theseion. 520–510 BC.
ΝΑΜ, Γ 1959

A nude youth with Attic helmet is depicted moving to the right in the conventional pose of a runner. This is probably a funerary monument for a hoplite (soldier). According to another view, it represents a dancer of the pyrrichean war dance.