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Herakles
Italic
Later Hellenistic Period
about 300 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Height: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Samuel Cabot
Accession Number61.940
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes (MFA), no. 185.
DescriptionHerakles is brandishing his club in the raised right hand, and attachments indicate that an object such as a sword or spear was held in the outstretched left hand. The Nemean Lion's skin is worn on the hero's head, forepaws being knotted around the neck and hind-paws and tail wrapped over the left arm. Left hand missing. Dark green patina.
ProvenanceBy 1961: Mrs. Samuel Cabot Collection; gift of Mrs. Samuel Cabot to MFA, September 20, 1961