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Herakles or male, Farnese type, frontal view. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Herakles, Farnese Type
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 116
- Date
- 3rd C. AD, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx64.001
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure, Human Figure
- Site
- Sardis?
- Findspot
- Findspot unknown.
- Description
- The exaggerated musculature of the chest and abdomen of this nude figure is emphasized by the shift of weight onto the proper r. leg, the r. hip thrown out. The fisted r. hand rests on the back of the hip. These features, combined with the fold of drapery under the l. armpit, indicate that our statue is a small version of the Farnese Herakles type, who stands in this very position, and leans with his l. arm on a club covered with drapery showing the same fold arrangement as is preserved here. Even the break at the neck suggests that there may have been a full beard, as the prototype has. The crude but effective carving and the hard modeling of the torso suggests a date in the 3rd C. A.D.
- Condition
Marble.
Preserved neck to crotch.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.40; W. at shoulders 0.36
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- For the Herakles Fernase type, see Bieber, Hellenistic Age, fig. 84.
- Author
- NHR