Dying Gaul
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The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculptur
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Back of the sculpture.
Detail showing the face, hairstyle and torc of the sculpture
Detail showing his neck torc.
Torc
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A torc, also spelled torq or torque, is a large rigid or stiff neck ring in metal, made either as a single piece or from strands twisted together. The great majority are open at the front, although so
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…it depicted a wounded gladiator in a Roman amphitheatre. It was first identified as a "barbarian" by Ennio Quirino Visconti based on the figure's neck torc, matted hair, bushy moustache, distinctive eyebrows, and wide nose. In the mid-19th century it was identified as a Gaul or Galatian and the present…
Bronze 4th-century BC buffer-type torc from France
The Dying Gaul, a Roman statue with a torc in the Capitoline Museums in Rome
Unusually complex helical gold ribbon torc from the Stirling Hoard, Scotland
Two uncleaned Bronze Age twisted bar torcs with flared cylinder terminals, as often found folded up, with bracelets, England