Mantiklos "Apollo"

The inscription on this figure's legs reads: Mantiklos dedicated me as a tithe to the Far Shooter, the bearer of the Silver Bow. You, Phoebus, give something pleasing in return. The figure may have held either a silver bow and arrow (making him a representation of the god Apollo) or a shield and spear (possibly making him an image of the man Mantiklos). The figure's stylized form places it at the transition between Geometric-period rigidity and the muscularity of the early Archaic period.