Marble head of Apollo Sauroktonos

Marble head of Apollo Sauroktonos (lizard-killer). The best Roman copy of the head of Praxiteles’ bronze statue by ca. 360/350 BC. 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. From Kifissia, perhaps from the villa of Herodes Atticus, 2nd c. AD. H. 0.265 m. Gift of Spyros Charokopos. (ΓΕ 23722)