One of the lesser-known statues in Florence's famed Loggia dei Lanzi was slightly damaged over the weekend, the Florence art superintendency said Monday.
A knuckle of a statue of Polyxena, the mythical Trojan princess in whom Achilles confided the vulnerability of his heel, was found lying on the ground Saturday, it said.
The finger fragment has been given to a firm which restored the statue in 2002, to stick back on.
The statue, The Rape of Polyxena, is a 19th-century neoclassical work which is much younger and less celebrated than the other statues in the loggia on one side of Piazza della Signoria.
Its companions include Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus (1545-1554) and Giambologna's Rape of the Sabine Women (1583).
