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Tiber Apollo
The Tiber Apollo is an over lifesize marble sculpture of Apollo, a Hadrianic or Antonine Roman marble copy after a bronze Greek original of about 450 BCE. Dredged from the bed of the Tiber in Rome, in making piers for the Ponte Garibaldi (1885, bridge completed 1888), it is conserved in the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome. The style of the sculpture reflects the school of Phidias, perhaps the young Phidias himself, as Jiří Frel suggested, and Kenneth Clark observed of
the shrine on the Quirinal was of Sabine origin that on the Tiber island was Latin.
According to another source the statue of Sancus (as Semo Sancus Dius Fidus) was found on the Tiber Island.
The statue is life-sized and is of the archaic Apollo type. The expression of the face and the modeling of the body however are realistic. Both hands are missing, so that it is impossible to say what were the attributes of the god, one being perhaps the club of Hercules and/or the "