Statue of Heracles (Farnese type)
Parian marble. Late Hellenistic copy of a famous statue made by Lysippos ca. 320 BCE. Inv. No. 5742.Athens, National Archaeological MuseumPhoto by Ilya Shurygin

Statue of Heracles (Farnese type).

Parian marble. Late Hellenistic copy of a famous statue made by Lysippos ca. 320 BCE.
Inv. No. 5742.

Athens, National Archaeological Museum
(Αθήνα, Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο).

Private collection, Farnese.
Origin:
From the Antikythera shipwreck, 1900.
Literature:
P. C. Bol, Die Skulpturen des Schiffsfundes von Antikythera. 2. Beih. AM (1972) Cat. no. 23;
N. Kaltsas, Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Los Angeles 2002) 251 Cat. no. 522;
D. Krull, Der Herakles vom Typus Farnese. Kopienkritische Untersuchung einer Schöpfung des Lysipp (Frankfurt am Main 1985) 28 Cat. no. 3;
Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae IV (1988) 762 f. Cat. no. 699 s. v. Herakles [O. Palagia];
J. N. Svoronos, Die Funde von Antikythera (Athen 1903) 55 f. Cat. no. 23 Pl. 11;
Credits:
© 2014. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Data: museum annotation.
Bibliography: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/915.
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