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Statuette of Hercules

2nd century AD

Place of ManufactureRome, Italy

Medium/TechniqueMarble from Göktepe, Turkey (near Aphrodisias)

DimensionsHeight: 57 cm (22 7/16 in.)

Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912

Accession number14.733

On View

On view

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Ancient Greece and Rome

ProvenanceSaid to have been found in Rome, between the Aventine and the Tiber [see note 1]. 1898, sold by Signor Marotti, Rome, to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), London [note 2]; 1914, sold by Edward Perry Warren to the MFA for 2,500 pounds. (Accession date: August 6, 1914)

Notes:
[1] According to a letter from Edward Perry Warren dated May 7, 1914.
[2] According to Edward Perry Warren’s records. J. D. Beazley calls the statuette as "the Marotti Herakles" in Edward Perry Warren: The Biography of a Connoisseur (1941), p. 350.

Additional information:
In 1903, the statue was lent to the Burlington Fine Arts Club by Edward Perry Warren (Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art (1904), p. 13, no. 12).