L'APOLLO SAUROTTONO, found in a vineyard below the church of S. Balbina, Roma. -- VILLA ALBANI, Roma

Speranza


Apollo leaning agaist a tree-trunk with a lizard running up it.

He held an arrow in his right hand and perhaps a cord tethering the lizard in his left.
For another version of the same original see C111.

• Height: 1.06m.
• bronze statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as Apollo Sauroktonos (Apollo lizard-slayer).
  • is a version of the original bronze statue made by Praxiteles in about 350 BC.
  • was found in Rome in a vineyard below the Church of S. Balbina.
  • is now in Rome, Villa Albani, inv. 952.