Volume 5, Issue 3 September - December 2021 [pp. 387 - 398]
A statue of unknown origin by Praxiteles
Apollo Sauroktonos in the Cleveland Museum of Art
Tsao Cevoli
Archaeologist
On June 22, 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced the acquisition of a bronze statue, Apollo Sauroctonos, already known to scholars from numerous copies of the Roman period. Unlike the other examples, this one is not in marble, but in bronze: it could be the original bronze work by Praxiteles. Regarding the provenance of the statue, the official version provided by the seller and the buyer is not very convincing and lacks the support of documentary evidence. Equally unacceptable are the statements made by technicians on the basis of scientific analyses of which data, methods and procedures remain unknown. Almost 20 years after the acquisition of the statue, there are many points which the Cleveland Museum of Art has never made clear and which could dispute the legality of the American museum's possession.
Key words: Apollo Sauroktonos, Praxiteles, Cleveland Museum of Art, classical sculpture, illicit trafficking of antiquities
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