SANTORINI
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF THERA
Volcanic (trachyte) boulder
Inv. no. 509.
Volcanic (trachyte) boulder, weighing 480 kilos. It was lifted by the athlete Eumastas with his bare hands and his achievement is commemorated in an inscription on the stone itself: "Eumastas, son of Kritobolos, lifted me off the earth".
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