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Redware Fragment of Muscular Hercules Holding Lionskin and Club

Circa 3rd-4th Century AD

Description: Redware fragment from a thin-walled Roman bowl depicting in molded relief a standing Hercules holding in his left hand a well detailed lionskin and a club. From Roman North Africa.

Length: 3.6 in. (9.2 cm)

Condition: Intact as shown.

Provenance: Formerly in a German private collection acquired prior to 1990.

Reference: See Spatantile zwischen Heidentum und Christentum, nos 207-217, for examples of Hercules on Roman North African plates.

Price: $ 600

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