Belvedere torso from Rome, 1st century BC. A heavily muscled naked figure sits on a rock covered by a panther skin. His identity is much debated. The panther skin and the hole for the tail in his back suggests he is the old satyr Marsyas, a much-loved Hellenistic subject. The rock carries the signature of the statue's maker, Apollonias of Athens.

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Belvedere torso from Rome, 1st century BC. A heavily muscled naked figure sits on a rock covered by a panther skin. His identity is much debated. The panther skin and the hole for the tail in his back suggests he is the old satyr Marsyas, a much-loved Hellenistic subject. The rock carries the signature of the statue's maker, Apollonias of Athens.

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Photo credit: © World History Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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