HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.

The nude hero is depicted here standing with his foot raised on a rocky outcrop, with the Nemean lion skin draped over his right arm and his club resting on his left shoulder. For another example in sardonyx dating to the 1st Century B.C. and showing the hero resting the club over his shoulder see Antike Gemmen in Deutschen Sammlungen, Band I, Munich, 1968, no. 984.
For another example of this type also see a nicolo gem possibly depicting Caracalla as Hercules in D. Willers & L. Raselli-Nydegger, Im Glanz der Goetter und Heroen, Mainz, 2003, p. 158, no. 164.