Sosicles

Amazone Typus Sosikles ( Capitoline Museum )

Sosikles (Σωσικλῆς) was a Roman sculptor who worked in the middle of the 2nd century. He worked as a copyist of Greek masterpieces.

He is known by two signatures:

on a marble plinth made of Tusculum
on the support of a marble statue of a wounded Amazon ( Rome , Capitoline Museums , inv. MC 0651). This statue comes from the Albani Collection , (Inv. D19) in Rome.

It is a marble copy of a lost bronze statue of an Amazon from Ephesus , which was made by either Polyklet or Kresilas in the 5th century BC. Was created.

The Sosikles Amazon, along with the Amazon Mattei and the Amazone Sciarra, is one of the three types of Amazon statues preserved in Roman copies that go back to a sculpting competition between Phidias , Polyklet and Kresilas for the sanctuary of Artemis in Ephesus. The type of the Sosikles Amazon is still in further specimens, e.g. Sometimes only as herms or busts, handed down.

literature

Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Artists lexicon of antiquity . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 411 sv Sosikles (R. Vollkommer).
Hans von Steuben: The Amazon of Polyklet. In: Polykletforschungen, ed. by Herbert Beck and Dieter Bol, Berlin 1993, pp. 73-102.

personal data
SURNAME	Sosicles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century or 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century or 3rd century