Daughter of Niobe

Part of a temple pediment, probably from South Italy or southern Greece. The now-lost temple must have been a major structure with sculptures which may have just pre-dated the Parthenon. As a measure of the sculptures’ significance, the Romans considered them worth plundering.

Artemis and Apollo set out to kill the children of Niobe, who boasted she was a better mother than the goddess Leto. The girl is shown running for her life

Number

155

Material

Parian marble

Location of Original

Copenhagen Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 398

Size

1.42m

Accession

Purchased from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1933

References

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 177 (n.2), pl. 65.1
Dinsmoor: American Journal of Archaeology XLIII (1939), 27-
Lawrence: Classical Sculpture (1928), 213
Arndt & Lippold: Brunn-Bruckmann, Denkmäler Griechischer und Römischer Skulptur, pls. 712, 713 left, 714; text vol. 5 (1932)

Date

c.440-430 BCE

Sculptor

Paionios of Mende (?)

Provenance

Said to have been rediscovered in the Gardens of Sallust in Rome in 1873

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