A Roman copy of this work allegedly found in the historian Sallust's gardens is now housed at the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum.
A Roman copy of this work allegedly found in the historian Sallust's gardens is now housed at the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum. Likely commissioned by Attalus I to celebrate a Hellenic victory over a tribe of hostile invaders, this statue shows a nude, moustached man looking down and leaning his hands on his bent left knee and on the ground as he tries in vain to lift himself up. FTP, name this Greek statue that was dedicated at Pergamon and depicts a Celtic barbarian in the throes of death.
A Roman copy of this work allegedly found in the historian Sallust's gardens is now housed at the Palazzo Nuovo in the Capitoline Museum.
{Dying Gaul}