Daughter of Niobe
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
Material:
Parian marble
Location of Original:
Rome, National Museum, Terme 72274
Size:
1.49m
Accession:
Purchased from Dresden in 1970
Date:
c.440-430 BCE
Sculptor:
The sculptor may have been the Macedonian Paionios of Mende, who also made the large flying Nike at Olympia
Provenance:
Found near the Gardens of Sallust in Rome
Number:
560