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Glass Scaraboid with Herakles and the Nemean lion
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Glass scaraboid (intaglio gem in the shape of a beetle). Herakles wrestles the Nemean lion. on the left, a beardless Herakles stands facing the lion, both are in profile. Herakles raises his right arm, as if to hold a club. Many facial details have not survived, however, his close-cropped hair, brow, and ear are visible. The lion faces Herakles with his head near the hero's chest. Herakles' lower legs as well as the lion's hindlegs are missing.
The figures are deeply cut indicating that the design was cut into the glass rather than molded.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Damon Mezzacappa gift; to the Harvard Art Museum 1986.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Damon Mezzacappa
Title: Glass Scaraboid with Herakles and the Nemean lion
Description:
Glass scaraboid (intaglio gem in the shape of a beetle).
Herakles wrestles the Nemean lion.
on the left, a beardless Herakles stands facing the lion, both are in profile.
Herakles raises his right arm, as if to hold a club.
Many facial details have not survived, however, his close-cropped hair, brow, and ear are visible.
The lion faces Herakles with his head near the hero's chest.
Herakles' lower legs as well as the lion's hindlegs are missing.
The figures are deeply cut indicating that the design was cut into the glass rather than molded.
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