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replaced with 00055934001 00034608001 This colossal marble statue came from the Temple of Apollo at Cyrene in modern Libya. The statue of Apollo was found broken into 121 pieces, laying near the large pedestal on which it had originally stood. The fragments were painstakingly removed from the site and reassembled in The British Museum. The statue now stands 2.29 metres high but the right arm, which was originally raised, and the left wrist and hand are missing. Cult statues were representations of a deity and acted as the focus for ritual activity within ancient temples. This image of Apollo shows him holding a lyre, and so emphasizes his role as god of music. He is naked apart from the precariously draped himation or cloak around his hips, and has an almost feminine quality that reflects the influence of Hellenistic statuary of the second century BC. Cyrene had been founded by settlers from the Greek island of Thera in the seventh century BC; the Roman patrons who commissioned the statue were encouraged by the emperor Hadrian to celebrate their civic identity by evoking the city's Greek past.;'This serpent's head has come off so you have to imagine what it would have looked like' Apollo was a hero for killing a serpent, and Apollo is a famous Greek god. He set a trap for the serpent and killed it. This statue is 1900 years old. It was made in Libya and is made of marble. It was once brightly coloured. It was carved by a very skilled person suposing a sculptor. A Greek sculptor might have made it to worship in a temple. The temple owned it. It was used for worshipping in the temple or a statue for people to see the hero Apollo. Also it mght have been used for protection. by Teresa Tang aged 9;This colossal marble statue of Apollo was found broken into 121 pieces. The pieces were brought to The British Museum where Apollo was carefully put back together, although his right arm and left wrist and hand are still missing. Apollo is holding a lyre to show that he is the god of music. The story says
Object reg. no: GR 1861,0725.1
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