Packet 10: Tossup 1

Description acceptable. Two women in this pose flank a winged youth holding scales on the main panel of a cuboid marble sculpture named for Boston. A sculpture depicts a subject in this pose wearing himantes (“him-AHN-tays”) and a kynodesme (“kin-oh-DESS-may”), and displaying Morton’s toe and cauliflower ear, and is (10[1])often displayed alongside a “prince.” Eros plays near the legs of a god who rests (-5[1])both hands on his sword while in this pose in the Ludovisi Ares. The bearded subject in this pose (10[1])rotates his head almost 90 degrees to the side in a (-5[1])bronze Hellenistic sculpture (-5[1])of a boxer. (10[1])This pose usually names a painted (10[1])limestone sculpture of a scribe discovered (10[1])at (10[1])Saqqara. (10[5]-5[1])Phidias (10[1])made (10[1])a 12-meter-tall chryselephantine (10[2])sculpture of a god in this pose that was one of the Seven (10[1])Wonders (10[1])of the (10[1])Ancient World. For 10 (10[1])points, the subject held a staff while in what pose in the lost Statue of Zeus at Olympia? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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