Marble Relief Fragment with a Hesperid Holding Apples in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008

Marble Relief Fragment with the Torso of a Hesperid Holding Apples
Roman, Imperial period, 1st- 2nd century AD
Copy of a Greek marble relief of about 420-410 BC

Accession # 22.139.21

This relief showed Herakles in the garden of the Hesperides receiving the golden apples that brought immortality. The original was one of four famous reliefs that probably decorated the parapet surrounding the Altar of the Twelve Gods in the Athenian Agora.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.