This young male body has long been identified as Ilioneus, one of Niobe’s many children, killed by Artemis and Apollo’s arrows. Certainly the kneeling posture, twist of the torso and what can be reconstructed of the arms are suggestive of someone trying to defend himself. He is part of a sculptural group showing the death of all of Niobe’s sons and daughters
Munich Glyptothek 270
Purchased in 1933 to replace the cast damaged in a lighting strike of 1932. Signed by Zöller of Munich. The original cast was purchased in 1884 from the Technische Hochschule in Munich
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 221 (n.18)
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 71, no.324
Lawrence: Later Greek Sculpture (1927), appendix 97
Brunn-Bruckmann, Denkmäler Griechischer und Römischer Skulptur, pl. 432
Furtwängler: Catalogue of the Munich Museum, 268, pl. 60
First recorded in 1402 in Florence
