CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE HERCULES
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
34 in. (86.4 cm.) high

Provenance

with Mitsukoshi Department Store, Japan, 1983.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 5-6 December 2001, lot 642.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 4 June 2015, lot 93.
UAE private collection, acquired from the above sale.

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Lot Essay

Depictions of Hercules holding the strangled lion by a hind-leg are comparatively rare. The type is known from Roman sarcophagi that illustrate the Hercules cycle, and there is a free-standing version in the Vatican. For the sarcophagi, see nos 1716-1718, 1721, 1724 and 1736, and for the Vatican sculpture, see no. 1977 in A. Hermary, "Herakles," in LIMC, vol. V.

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