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Apollo?

The identity of this statue, if any, is questionable, imo. This has no specific identifying markers, especially related to Apollo (Python, lyre, sun symbolism), and this same statue stands for (what I can remember off the top of my head) Hermes in the Drogarati Cave on Kephallonia, and for Argus the All-Seeing at the campsite of the Daughters of Artemis in Argolis, I'm tempted to mark this for deletion. Opinions? Sadelyrate (siniath) 14:47, April 16, 2019 (UTC)

It appears to have been maed as such by process of elimination. All the other statues in this series of images do have identifying objects in place that allow names to be given, with the exception of Apollo. --Jasca Ducato (talk | contributions) 15:00, April 16, 2019 (UTC)

True, that. Can't really just call it the 'Statue of the pretty adolescent'...which fits a number of Greek deities, in one aspect or another. Including Zeus. Sadelyrate (siniath) 15:03, April 16, 2019 (UTC)

Discovered the basis

Was looking into something else, but ran into this (another view), and it rung a bell. It's a 3rd century BCE statue of Alexander the Great, signed "Menas", located currently in Istanbul Archaeology Museum. Like Herakles, Alexander was deified as well. Sadelyrate (siniath) 18:01, February 22, 2020 (UTC)

Given this, as well as the fact that nowhere in either Origins or Odyssey is the statue specifically tied to being Apollo (unlike, say, Hebe's-statue-as-Demeter's), I suggest that its status as depicting Apollo is removed. Unless or until as official as possible source can confirm otherwise. Sadelyrate (siniath) 18:24, February 22, 2020 (UTC)