Disc
with an engraved javelin throwing athlete on the front, the back adorns a competitor with the handle of an indefinable piece of sports equipment in his left hand.
The discus is 19.4 cm in diameter and 2.9 cm thick and has original dimensions. Height with marble base 23,5 cm. Exhibit of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, bronze, replica in ceramics.
Discus throwing is the only modern practice taken directly from antiquity, a discipline of pentathlon. The weight of the device fluctuated between 1.3 and 4.7 kg. In Olympia, three discs were kept for the competitions. Thrown was thrown with rotation from a pitch. Discus tossing gave off many attractive motifs for the visual arts. For the estimation of the record throw of 28.17 m (between 500 and 480 B. C.), which has been handed down to the athlete Phayllos, the discus weight is missing.
