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The Infant Herakles Strangling Snakes in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, October 2009

The Infant Herakles Strangling Snakes in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, October 2009

Herakles strangling two snakes
about A.D. 140–190

Dimensions
Stone (white marble sculpture): 45.1 x 35.9 x 75.6 cm (17 3/4 x 14 1/8 x 29 3/4 in.) Case (painted wooden base): 84.1 x 66.4 x 66 cm (33 1/8 x 26 1/8 x 26 in.)

Material: Thasian marble

Classification: Sculpture

Accession Number: 1993.144

On view in the Greek Late Classical and Hellenistic Gallery - 212A

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/herakles-strangling-two-sn...

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