Apollo

Unknown (Roman)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

2nd century

Height:

228.0 cm  (89 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

marble

Description

"Roman copy of a Hellenistic original of about 200-150BC. Marble statue of Apollo with a kithara and quiver." (British Museum)

Iconclass

92B373
Apollo playing the lyre, Apollo Citharoedus

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Lawergren, Bo. "The cylinder kithara in Etruria, Greece, and Anatolia", Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984) 147-174, fig. 4. RILM 1984-07037.

RIdIM record id

4791