Statue of Apollo with the lyre

A statue found at Ostia. This was a favourite subject with the greatest masters of ancient Greece, and hence we have little trouble in recognizing a copy of some famous work, in the many beautiful statues which have reached our time. From the ease and gracefulness of the attitude the one under notice is evidently a work of the second Attic school. The hair is worn in the usual female style. The left arm which is enveloped in the folds of the chlamys rests against the trunk of a tree. The god holds the harp in his left hand and the plectrum in the left. He rests upon the right leg, the left being drawn slightly back.

Inv. nr. 237. H. 1.90. From Ostia.