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Engraved Gem with Hercules and Telephus

Date

A.D. 50–150

Medium

Nicolo glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

Type F4. Hercules seated before a tree on a rock covered with his lionskin; he leans on his club with his right hand and gestures with his raised left hand; before him stands the infant Telephus, who leans forward and raises his right arm to Herakles; behind the boy stands a shepherd, who leans on his staff, to which the youth is tied(?); groundline.

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