Copper alloy figure of Hercules wearing a lion skin. Hercules is depicted as slender, beardless, round-faced and very youthful in appearance, and he wears his hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls.He is clothed in a sleeveless tunic and belt. Th
1895,0408.1,
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