Sosicles (sculptor)

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

He is known by two signatures:

• On a Marmorplinthe from Tusculum
• On the support of a marble statue of a wounded Amazon (Rome, Capitoline Museum, Inv. MC 0651 ). This statue comes from the collection Albani, ( Inv. D19 ) in Rome.

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

The Sosikles amazon belongs together with the Mattei Amazon and the Amazon Sciarra of the three types of results obtained in Roman copies Amazons statues, which date back to a contest between sculptor Phidias, Polykleitos and Kresilas for the sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus. The type of Sosikles amazon is still handed down in other instances, some only as Hermen or busts.