Luna marble, middle of 2nd cent. A.D.
Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Villa Corsini, inv. 13864

This statue represents one of the Niobe's children pierced by the arrows of Apollo and Artemis. It was part of a group of 11 sculptures found in 1583 in an area occupied in ancient times by the Horti Lamiani. Near the end of the 18th century the statues, probably designed to decorate a nymphaeum, were brought to Florence and exhibited at the Uffizi Gallery in a room specially built for them.