This larger-than-life male head was found in four very weathered fragments. It is from a figure in action with upturned head and slightly open mouth, beardless, and with long flowing hair gathered up on top of his head; these are all characteristics of Apollo as he was depicted at the time.
The scale is different from that of the other free-standing sculptures from the Mausoleum, suggesting that it may have been part of a sculptural group on the roof of the monument
London, British Museum 1058
Purchased from Brucciani of London in 1884
Waywell: The Free Standing Sculptures of the Mausoleum, 118
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 256 (n.9)
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 95, no.517
Smith: Catalogue of British Museum Sculpture II (1900), 127, pl. XX.2
Found on site at Halikarnassos
