Roman copy of a Greek bronze prototype.
Near the findspot was a base featuring an omphalos (navel in ancient Greek), the mythical centre of the world. This is how the Apollo got its name, although now it is believed that the sculpture and the base do not belong together
Athens National Museum 45
Purchased in 1884 from Martinelli of Athens
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 102 (n.1)
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), figs.36-7
Pfeiff: Apollon (1943), pls. 27-8
Papaspiridi: Guide du Musée Nationale d’Athènes (1927), 34, no.45
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 891, no.101
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 28, no.109
Found in 1862 in the Theatre of Dionysos, Athens