Marble relief fragment with the torso of a Hesperid holding apples, 1st–2nd century A.D
RMID:Image ID:KC502E
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KC502EFile size:
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2713 x 3321 px | 23 x 28.1 cm | 9 x 11.1 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
18 June 2017Photographer:
ArtokoloroMore information:
This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage.
Marble relief fragment with the torso of a Hesperid holding apples, Imperial, 1st–2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble, Pentelic, H. 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm.); width 13 in. (33.0 cm.); depth 4 in. (10.2 cm), Stone Sculpture, 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
