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Apollo; Rome, 1st-2nd century AD.
Bronze.
Measurements: 8 cm.
Roman bronze statuette representing Apollo standing in a naturalistic posture, with a muscular and naked body. Son of Zeus and Leto, Apollo is a complex deity, perhaps the most venerated in classical antiquity after his father. He was the god of divine distance, who protected or threatened from on high, was identified with light and purification, as well as being the patron of the most famous oracle of antiquity, that of Delphi.
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DESCRIPTION
Apollo; Rome, 1st-2nd century AD.
Bronze.
Measurements: 8 cm.
Roman bronze statuette representing Apollo standing in a naturalistic posture, with a muscular and naked body. Son of Zeus and Leto, Apollo is a complex deity, perhaps the most venerated in classical antiquity after his father. He was the god of divine distance, who protected or threatened from on high, was identified with light and purification, as well as being the patron of the most famous oracle of antiquity, that of Delphi.
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