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Marble statue of Ephebus from Tralles Identical Museum Reproduction
Museum: Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Date: 1st century B.C. to early 1st century AD
Period: Hellenistic - Roman Imperial
Ephebos (ἔφηβος) (often in the plural epheboi), also anglicised as ephebe (plural: ephebes) or archaically
ephebus (plural: ephebi), is a Greek word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that
age in Antiquity. Though the word can simply refer to the adolescent age of young men of training age, its
main use is for the members, exclusively from that age group, of an official institution (ephebeia) that saw
to building them into citizens, but especially training them as soldiers, sometimes already sent into the
field; the Greek city state (polis) mainly depended, as the Roman republic before Gaius Marius' reform, on
its militia of citizens for defence. In Rome, where the elite (mainly Patrician) were often sent to Greece or
received Greek teachers, the Greek word was adopted in the latinate form ephebus (pl. ephebi), and fixed
at the 16–20 age bracket.
This sculpture is also thought to display a young Macedonian boy draped in his cloak. The sculpture is
identical reproduction of the original ancient masterpiece, now housed by the prominent museum. The
statue is composed from mold made from the original, thus guaranteeing the highest accuracy of identical
reproduction. The reproduction pictured here is made of cast marble, and is extremely heavy and strong,
having a real ancient feel. An ancient patina finishing gives it an additional historical value (you can choose
not to have patina applied and keep it all white if you like). The statue can be displayed both inside and out,
it is weatherproofed.
Item No. S047 Dimensions: height 148 cm (4' 10")
$4,990.00
Museum: Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Date: 1st century B.C. to early 1st century AD
Period: Hellenistic - Roman Imperial
Ephebos (ἔφηβος) (often in the plural epheboi), also anglicised as ephebe (plural: ephebes) or archaically
ephebus (plural: ephebi), is a Greek word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that
age in Antiquity. Though the word can simply refer to the adolescent age of young men of training age, its
main use is for the members, exclusively from that age group, of an official institution (ephebeia) that saw
to building them into citizens, but especially training them as soldiers, sometimes already sent into the
field; the Greek city state (polis) mainly depended, as the Roman republic before Gaius Marius' reform, on
its militia of citizens for defence. In Rome, where the elite (mainly Patrician) were often sent to Greece or
received Greek teachers, the Greek word was adopted in the latinate form ephebus (pl. ephebi), and fixed
at the 16–20 age bracket.
This sculpture is also thought to display a young Macedonian boy draped in his cloak. The sculpture is
identical reproduction of the original ancient masterpiece, now housed by the prominent museum. The
statue is composed from mold made from the original, thus guaranteeing the highest accuracy of identical
reproduction. The reproduction pictured here is made of cast marble, and is extremely heavy and strong,
having a real ancient feel. An ancient patina finishing gives it an additional historical value (you can choose
not to have patina applied and keep it all white if you like). The statue can be displayed both inside and out,
it is weatherproofed.
Item No. S047 Dimensions: height 148 cm (4' 10")
$4,990.00
images of the original sculpture in the museum
