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Apollo the Python-Slayer, also known as Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer), is attributed by the Cleveland Museum staff to Praxiteles from about 350 BCE. It is bronze with copper and a stone inlay. The height is 150 cm, the width is 66.8 cm, and the depth is 50.3 cm. The statue consists of its right arm above the elbow a large portion of the left arm, and the shoulder. Most of the left forearm and the left hand survive along with the small reptilian creature. The reptilian figure has the strange anatomy of a coiled snake with legs of differing sizes and attached asymmetrically.  The inconsistencies in the reptile prove it is not a natural figure, but a smaller python from the world of mythology. The figure, hand, forearm and reptilian creature belong together. They were cast from the same melt as confirmed by analysis of the composition of the metal, the amount of lead in the metal, and the history of corrosion.In the first century AD Pliny the Elder wrote in his Natural History (34.69–70), that the famous fourth century BCE Athenian sculptor Praxiteles created a bronze sculpture depicting Apollo in his youth ready to stab a lizard with an arrow. Pliny used the epithet sauroktonos (lizard-slayer) to refer to the Praxiteles masterpiece. His youthful Apollo leans toward a tree trunk where he rests his raised left hand. He holds an arrow in his right hand about to stab at the lizard that runs up the tree. Here a serious mythological subject is treated as a sport or pastime with a slight allusion to the religious type. The Cleveland Apollo artist following the same treatment also reveled in the youthful beauty and grace of the boyish form, the curve in its position and the delicacy with which it is modeled. It is likely that the figure has been exaggerated by the copyist similar to other copies of the Sauroktonos and other figures of Apollo that appear to be based on a Praxiteles original, . Two other copies are possibly the work of a contemporary imitator. The two are under life-size figures that represent Apollo and Dionysus. The head in the Apollo agrees in pose and inclination to other works. It bears witness to the influence of Polykleita in that it has close-growing parted hair hanging down over the forehead in symmetrical curls (see the figure in the Gallery).Several marble copies of the Apollo made in Rome have survived and are in indication of its popularity into the Imperial period. Wealthy Romans acquired them to decorate their homes and country villas. The copies show a youthful Apollo leaning on a thick, leafless tree trunk with a lizard climbing up the surface. This sculptural type has been known as Apollo Sauroktonos since Roman times. Even Roman coins and gems engraved with Apollo show the sculptural type. Rather than a stout tree trunk, many show Apollo with a young slender tree.
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