Daughter of Niobe

Daughter of Niobe, Museum Classical Archaeology, Cambridge

This young figure was part of a temple pediment, probably from South Italy or southern Greece. Artemis and Apollo set out to kill the children of Niobe, who boasted she was a better mother than the goddess Leto. This daughter has been wounded in the back.  From c.440-430 BCE; the sculptor may have been the Macedonian Paionios of Mende.

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