Scene of Herakles

4th century (Late Antique)

4.6 cm 8.2 cm

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Herakles here dispatches the Nemean Lion by strangling the beast. The hero also wields his club, rarely present among representations of this labor.Apart from the partial loss of its borders, this plaque is well preserved. Plaques like this one and Walters 71.12 usually belong...

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Alexandria, Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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