Vatican Museums

This small bronze was found in the votive deposit of Valle Fuino, Cascia, which came to light following a landslide caused by the storm of 30 June 1794. Considered ever since its discovery as one of the most notable pieces in the deposit and indicated in eighteenth-century sources as “Apollo”, it is characterised by a dramatic diadem and is dressed in a cloak with large folds leaving a significant part of the chest exposed. It dates from the second quarter of the fourth century B.C. and depicts a male worshipper, possibly a priest or divinity.