Agias

Agias is one of a group of eight male figures representing past and present members of the patron’s family. An inscription found with the sculpture identifies the patron as Daochos from the city of Pharsalos, and that this figure is Agias and he was a prize-winning athlete.

It is clear that Agias was a wrestler or boxer as he has a cauliflower ear. Agias was the great grandfather of Daochos and was winning his sporting competitions over a century before this sculpture was made, so if we call this a portrait it is an idealised one. Its legs are a modern restoration

Number

256

Material

Marble

Location of Original

Delphi Museum

Size

1.98m

Accession

Purchased 1904-5

References

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 287 (n.1-2), pl. 102.3; 278 (n.8)
Morgan: Hesperia, supplement VIII (1949), 228-
Will: Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique LXII (1938), 289-
Hyde: American Journal of Archaeology XI (1907), 396-, figs.3-4
Fouilles de Delphes, pls. vol. IV, 63-4

Date

338-4 BCE

Inscription

Yes, but not on the cast

Provenance

Found at Delphi in 1894

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