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Gilded statuette of Hercules This large gilded statuette of Hercules, wearing a lion-skin, is unusual. Because there are no details of its date and place of discovery, it has been the subject of controversy in the past, including suggestions that it is not Roman at all, but Etruscan, Renaissance or even modern.

Technologically the method of casting and gilding is known from the Roman period. It may have come from a military shrine, and the current interpretation is that the statuette is intended as a portrait of the Emperor Commodus (reigned AD 180-92), who in AD 191 began to identify himself with the hero Hercules.

T.W. Potter, Roman Britain, 2nd edition (London, The British Museum Press, 1997)

She-wolf with Romulus and Remus Mosaic depicting the She-wolf with Romulus and Remus, from Aldborough, about 300-400 AD, Leeds City Museum

Museum

Location:

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Leeds
geo:53.801506,-1.546279
Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

Museum
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=50314
wikidata:entity=Q6515923

Annotations

Leeds City Museum has archaeological items from home and abroad¹.

References

↑wikipedia: Leeds City Museum

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