Plaster cast: Herakles and Atlas. Metope from the Temple of Zeus in Olympia [E 10]
ID-Number:
AH-254
Collection:
Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Material:
plaster
Dimensions:
H. 177 cm; W. 150 cm
Series of reliefs.
Athena, Herakles and Atlas with the golden apples of the Hesperides.
There are three other metopes from the Olympian Zeus-temple among the casts.
See also:
Ag.459 - Herakles fights the Cretan Bull (W4),
Ag.460 - Herakles hands the Stymphalian Birds to Athena (W3),
Ag.462 - Herakles and the stables of Augeus (E12)