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Herakles and the Nemean Lion in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013
Herakles and the Nemean Lion
ca. A.D. 160–256
Limestone
51.8 x 34.3 x 28 cm (20 3/8 x 13 1/2 x 11 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5302
The greatest of the Greek heroes, Herakles (Hercules) appears frequently at Dura-Europos, honored alongside his father, Zeus, in temples and worshipped alone in houses. He represents courage and strength and is best known for the twelve, impossible-seeming labors that he performed. At Dura, Herakles is invariably shown wrestling the Nemean lion with either the lion itself or its skin, which he carries afterward for protection and as a sign of strength. The significance of this myth for residents of Dura-Europos stemmed from the tradition of lion hunts as an activity of heroes and kings in the ancient Near East.
Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria)
Period: Roman
Classification: Sculpture.
Bibliography:
Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 354, no. 47, pl. 47.
Jennifer Chi and Sebastian Heath, eds., Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2011), 114, no. 41, ill.
Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/24948
ca. A.D. 160–256
Limestone
51.8 x 34.3 x 28 cm (20 3/8 x 13 1/2 x 11 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5302
The greatest of the Greek heroes, Herakles (Hercules) appears frequently at Dura-Europos, honored alongside his father, Zeus, in temples and worshipped alone in houses. He represents courage and strength and is best known for the twelve, impossible-seeming labors that he performed. At Dura, Herakles is invariably shown wrestling the Nemean lion with either the lion itself or its skin, which he carries afterward for protection and as a sign of strength. The significance of this myth for residents of Dura-Europos stemmed from the tradition of lion hunts as an activity of heroes and kings in the ancient Near East.
Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria)
Period: Roman
Classification: Sculpture.
Bibliography:
Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 354, no. 47, pl. 47.
Jennifer Chi and Sebastian Heath, eds., Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2011), 114, no. 41, ill.
Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/24948
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