Cast Gallery catalogue number: B128

Possibly the torso of Ajax, contemplating suicide. Herakles or Marsyas have also been suggested.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.57m, Width: 90cm.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Belvedere Torso.
  • is a version of an original of about 200 BC.
  • is signed by the 1st century BC copyist Apollonios, son of Nestor of Athens.
  • was found in Rome, at Piazza SS Apostoli in Palazzo Colonna, in the early 1530s.
  • is now in Rome, Musei Vaticani, Atrio del Torso, inv. 1192.