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Drunken Herakles
Greek, South Italian
late Classsical
400–350 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Medma
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Dimensions
10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.97
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionStatuette of a seated grotesque figure representing Herakles identified by the club in his right hand and the lion skin on his head. He is large bellied, dolichophallic and with grotesque features, is seated with left leg drawn up and head resting on left hand, apparently sleepy and drunken. A figure that refers to the popular type in Middle and New Comedy of the drunken and gluttonous Herakles
ProvenanceBy 1912: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: From Mesma.); gift of E. P. Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913