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Copy of a Greek marble relief of about 420–410 B.C.
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.
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Title: Marble relief fragment with the torso of a Hesperid holding apples
Period: Imperial
Date: 1st–2nd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble, Pentelic
Dimensions: H. 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm.); width 13 in. (33.0 cm.); depth 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
Object Number: 22.139.21
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