. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 136.—Boxer. Terme Museum, Rome.(From a photograph by Anderson.) 408 OH. XIX BOXING—HIMANTES OXEIS 409 and winged figure of Victory bearing in her hand a palm. Asimilar glove is represented on another Panathenaic vase, in theLouvre, belonging to the Archonship of Hegesias in 324 To bind on the hand these complicated thongs must havebeen a troublesome and lengthy process. And the introductionof the sphairai was followed almost immediately by the inven-tion of gloves which could be drawn on or off njore gloves, which are appropriatel

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. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 136.—Boxer. Terme Museum, Rome.(From a photograph by Anderson.) 408 OH. XIX BOXING—HIMANTES OXEIS 409 and winged figure of Victory bearing in her hand a palm. Asimilar glove is represented on another Panathenaic vase, in theLouvre, belonging to the Archonship of Hegesias in 324 To bind on the hand these complicated thongs must havebeen a troublesome and lengthy process. And the introductionof the sphairai was followed almost immediately by the inven-tion of gloves which could be drawn on or off njore gloves, which are appropriately described as T/zavTe? o^ei?,are familiar to us from the seated boxer in the Terme at Rome(Fig. 136). They occur also in a marble figure of a boxer fromSorrento which is now at Naples (Fig. 137), on an arm also atNaples, and on a hand found at Verona.^ They consist of two.

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