Torso of Herakles’ statuette

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 638

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Sculpture

Period

Archaic Period

Date

510-500 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.105 m
Length: 0.13 m

Material

Marble from Paros

Location

First Floor Case 9, Νο 6

Description
Bibliography

Part of the upper torso of Herakles' statuette. The hero wears chiton that creates fine wavy folds and over it has his lion-skin. The slain animal’s legs are tied in a knot (Herakles' knot) over his chest whereas on the back of the statuette visible are a tangling lock of Herakles’ hair or the lion’s mane and, a little further below, the animal’s tail.

The statuette has been connected with a plinth on which the feet of a human figure and a dog are preserved (Ακρ. 431). If this connection stands then the group of statuettes would have depicted Herakles guiding Cerberus.

Dickins, G., Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum, Archaic Sculpture, I, Cambridge, 1912, σελ. 182, αρ. κατ. 638
Payne, H., Mackworth-Young, G., Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis, London, 1936, εικ. 93
Langlotz, E., Schuchhardt, W., Schrader, H., Die archaischen Marmorbildwerke der Akropolis, Frankfurt am Main, 1939, σελ. 290, εικ. 163, αρ. κατ. 414
Μπρούσκαρη, Μ., Μουσείον Ακροπόλεως. Περιγραφικός κατάλογος, Αθήνα, 1974, σελ. 99, εικ. 178
Τριάντη, Ι., Το Μουσείο Ακροπόλεως, Ο Κύκλος των Μουσείων, Αθήνα, 1998, σελ. 169,179, εικ. 189