Niobe, Roman marble figure, 1st or 2nd century AD. A copy of a Greek original of 350-300 BC. In the Uffizzi Galleries there is a Roman copy of an original Greek Niobe and Niobids, much taller than this statue. There is a plaster cast of this in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology, along with a running/fleeing Niobid of the same scale.              £42,000.