Apollo Citharoedus

Apollo is shown crowned with laurel and wearing the long, flowing robe of the Ionic bard.

The sculptures are preserved in the Hall of the Muses, in the Museo Pio-Clementino of the Vatican Museums.

A marble sculpture now identified as Pothos (following a lost Greek 4th-century BC original by Skopas) was restored as an Apollo Citharoedus; it is conserved in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums, Rome.

Another marble Apollo Citharoedus (2.29m), from a Hellenistic original attributed to Timarchides, of the 2nd century BC, also stands in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo.

Its provenance is unclear; it has been much restored, the head is unlikely to be original and the figure was probably of Vesta.