Wounded Niobid Sculpture

This marble sculpture (440–430 BC) depicts a Niobid, one of Niobe’s daughters, slumping to the ground, trying to remove an arrow from her back. It was part of a group illustrating the myth of Niobe, whose children were slain by Apollo and Artemis. Originally adorning the pediment of the Temple of Apollo Daphnephoros at Eretria, it was later moved to Rome and hidden in the Horti Sallustiani.