Between 2014 and 2016 a highly specialized team supervised by prof. V. Brinkmann, head of
the Collections of Antiquities and Asia of the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt, produced the full size ‘copies’ of the two bronze Warriors from Riace Marina (Reggio Calabria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, invv. 12801, 12802). Because they do not merely reproduce the Warriors in their present state but restore their alleged original appearance in the 5th century BC, the crucial issues of the experiment, namely the archaeological sources and their use for the purpose of reconstruction, are here discussed.
