Marble Relief of Herakles in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2007

Marble Relief with Herakles Carrying the Erymanthian Boar
Roman, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 BC- 68 AD

Accession # 13.60

Large marble reliefs of this type were set into walls as decoration. Many figures were shown in an archaistic style, reinterpreting the stiff appearance of early Greek art in a highly sophisticated and decorative manner.

In the relief at the right, Herakles carries a wild boar that he was obliged to capture alive as one of the twelve labors imposed by Eurystheus, ruler of the Argolid.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.