Marble relief fragment with the torso of a Hesperid holding apples

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1st–2nd century CE · Marble, Pentelic · Greek and Roman Art

Copy of a Greek marble relief of about 420–410 B.C. This relief showed Herakles in the garden of the Hesperides receiving the golden apples that brought immortality. The original was one of four famous reliefs that probably decorated the parapet surrounding the Altar of the Twelve Gods in the Athenian Agora.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st–2nd century CE

Medium

Marble, Pentelic

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1922