A LATE ROMAN COPPER ALLOY PLAQUE, square, the border of repoussé circles, chased with a figure of Herakles, naked save for the lion skin which he wears draped over his back and tied around his neck, wielding above his head a staff with attached horns, a flowing river with boulders in front, pierced for attachment, upper right edge missing, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.

A LATE ROMAN COPPER ALLOY PLAQUE, square, the border of repoussé circles, chased with a figure of Herakles, naked save for the lion skin which he wears draped over his back and tied around his neck, wielding above his head a staff with attached horns, a flowing river with boulders in front, pierced for attachment, upper right edge missing, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.

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The scene may be on Herakles' return journey after capturing the Cattle of Geryon, one of the Twelve Labours. During this expedition he passed through Gaul and fought the Ligurians with the help of stones which Zeus rained down from the sky and which covered the plain of the Crau. However, the river Strymon refused to let Herakles cross and he had to fill up its bed with stones