Niobe and her Youngest Daughter

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The haughty mortal Niobe trembles before her retribution by the gods. These two statues were originally part of a larger ensemble depicting the slaughter of Niobe and her offspring by the gods. The group was likely erected by Seleukos, a king of Cilicia in southern coastal Asia Minor. It was relocated to Rome in 38 BC to adorn the rebuilt temple of Apollo in the Campus Martius. The original cast of this sculpture suffered damage from a bomb blast at the Uffizi in 1993; restored and reinstalled in 2006. As usual, we only have later Roman replicas to give us insight into what the original looked like. However, the powerful emotional content of the sculpture, a favorite theme of Hellenistic styles, is unmistakable. Photography Credit - CC BY-SA 4.0 - Nationalmuseum These 3D scans were produced with an Artec Eva in an effort to create a digital representation as close to the original as possible. Nonetheless, the presented scans are not exact duplicates as inaccessible areas etc may result in deviations from the original.