L'ERCOLE di Villa TIVOLI -- found in 1790.

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Herakles, holding a club in his left hand and a lion-skin in his right.

•  Height: 2.06m.
•  marble statuette.
• The statuette:
  • is known as the Lansdowne Herakles.
  • is a version of a Greek original of about 350 BC.
  • was found in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1790.
  • was formerly in the Lansdowne collection, inv. 61.
  • is now in Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, inv. 70.AA.109.