Statuette of Heracles mingens
Bronze, dark green, solid cast.1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
{Height 5.8 cm. Inv. No. Б. 307.Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
Statuette of Heracles mingens.
Bronze, dark green, solid cast.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
{Height 5.8 cm.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
{Height 5.8 cm.
Inv. No. Б. 307.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
(Санкт-Петербург, Государственный Эрмитаж).
Origin:
unknown; from the Laval collection, acquired in 1853.
Description:
He is naked, standing, his club on his left shoulder. The head is bent, the abdomen thrust forward, the legs bent and the knees apart. The hero gives the impression of being slightly drunk by urinating. This is a familiar Hellenistic motif.
N. Gulaeva, D. Vanhove
Literature:
Antique bronzes. Exhibition catalogue (Leningrad, 1973) no. 209 p. 88. O. Palagia, LIMC IV 1 Eros-Heracles (Zurich-Munich) p. 772 and p. 505 no. 904, 905.
Credits:
© 1993. Photo, text: Olympism in antiquity. Olympic Museum Lausanne. Bertelsmann UFA. Industria Gráfica S. A. Barcelona, 1993, p. 63 cat. no. 6.
© Photographic credits — M. Verhasselt (Brussels-Dilbeek).
© 1993 — Comité International Olympique.
© Photographic credits — M. Verhasselt (Brussels-Dilbeek).
© 1993 — Comité International Olympique.
Keywords: γλυπτική sculptura sculpture sculptural scultura skulptur greek greca greco greche griechische griechisches grecque grecquesё χάλκινο bronze bronzo bronzeo bronzen ελληνική μυθολογία mythologia graeca mythology mitologia mythologie ρωμαϊκή romana roman römische romaine ἡρακλῆς ηρακλής herakles heracles èracle eracle héraclès hercules ercole herkules hercule figurine figurines statuette statuettes statuetta club clava keule massue drunk drunken ubriaco ebbro betrunkener ivre mingens pissing urinating orinante pissender pisser from the laval collection collezione sammlung inv no б. 307
