Twelve Labours Altemps Inv8642

Palazzo Altemps (Museo Nazionale Romano), Rome, Italy

Artist/Maker Unknown

Front panel from a sarcophagus with the Labours of Heracles: from left to right, the Nemean Lion, the Lernaean Hydra, the Erymanthian Boar, the Ceryneian Hind, the Stymphalian birds, the Girdle of Hippolyte, the Augean stables, the Cretan Bull and the Mares of Diomedes. Luni marble, Roman artwork from the middle 3rd century AD.

Dimensions Unspecified
Credit line Former Ludovisi Collection
Accession number Inv. 8642
Location Ground floor
Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)

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