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 boy has been shot down with an arrow
Number:
156
Material:
Parian marble
Location of Original:
Copenhagen Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 399
Size:
1.65m long
Accession:
Purchased from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1933
References:
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 177 (n.4), pl. 65.3
Dinsmoor: American Journal of Archaeology XLIII (1939), 27-
Lawrence: Classical Sculpture (1928), 213
Date:
c.440-430 BCE
Sculptor:
Paionios of Mende (?)
Provenance:
Said to have been rediscovered in the Gardens of Sallust in Rome in 1886
