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1454. Herakles. Votive relief Marble.
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Found in Monastiraki Square, Athens. Herakles is depicted reclining
on a rock on which he has spread his lion's pelt. Above his head can be seen
leaves of a plane tree in the shade of which the hero is resting.
Copy made in the 2nd c. A.D. of an earlier, Hellenistic work.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
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