Marble head of Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-slayer). From Kifisia, perhaps from the villa of the Roman consul Herodes Atticus, 2nd cent. A.D. The best Roman copy of the head of the bronze statue created by Praxiteles c. 360/350 B.C. The original, particularly popular in antiquity, represented the young god resting his left arm on a tree trunk and trying to kill a little lizard with his right hand. Gift of Spyros Charokopos. Benaki Museum. Source: museum inscription.
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