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The Boxer at Rest is a life size Hellenistic bronze statue discovered in Rome in 1885 near the Baths of Constantine on the Quirinal Hill. Dating to around the late 4th to early 1st century BC, it depicts an exhausted boxer seated after a fight, with broken nose, swollen ears, scars, and copper inlays highlighting fresh wounds and blood. The realism emphasizes physical damage, age, and psychological fatigue rather than idealized athletic beauty. Likely a Greek original brought to Rome, the statue