CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

细节

A ROMAN MARBLE HAND OF HERCULES HOLDING APPLES OF THE HESPERIDES
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The powerful right hand with fingers clenched around three apples, mounted
8¼ in. (21 cm.) long

来源

Formerly in a German private collection, 1964.

注意事项

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拍品专文

One of the Twelve Labours of Hercules was to retrieve the Golden Apples of the Hesperides. The Hesperides, daughters of Atlas and Hesperus, guarded a tree of golden apples in a garden at the far western extremity of the world. Hercules killed the dragon, Ladon, which guarded the entrance to the garden, and was thus able to seize the apples which were eventually returned to the Hesperides by Athena.