This young figure was 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. This daughter has been wounded in the back
Rome, National Museum, Terme 72274
Purchased from Dresden in 1970
Found near the Gardens of Sallust in Rome