Sosicles (sculptor)

Amazon Sosicles type (Capitoline Museums).

For other people named Sosicles, see Sosicles (disambiguation).

Sosicles (Ancient Greek: Σωσικλῆς) was a Roman sculptor in the mid 2nd century AD. He worked as copyist of ancient Greek masterpieces. He is known from his signature shown on a marble plinth from Tusculum and the column of a marble statue of a wounded Amazon (originally in the collection of Alessandro Albani, Inv. D19; now in the Capitoline Museums, Inv. MC 0651). The marble statue is one of the three Amazon statue types.

References

• Künstlerlexikon der Antike II (2004) 411 s.v. Sosikles (R. Vollkommer).
• Hans von Steuben: Die Amazone des Polyklet, in: Polykletforschungen, ed. by Herbert Beck and Dieter Bol, Berlin 1993, pp. 73-102.

External links

• The Three Amazons
• William Smith - The Ancient Library
• AJA Online