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A Note on Praxiteles' Sauroktonos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
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The only reference to the Sauroktonos by Praxiteles occurs in the writings of Pliny. Although much scholarly ink has flowed over virtually every square inch of the figure's languid body, no one (to my knowledge) has yet considered the activity of the left hand which is held directly above the ascending lizard in all three copies and on coins of Nikopolis and Philippopolis.
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page 37 note 1 This is supported by Aelian's implication (NA v. 47) that the lizard must be captured before it is pierced.