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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure EUR-vat-032. Heracles (Hercules) with a club (?) and Iolaos with a sword (?) fighting the polycephalic Lernean Hydra (The Second Labour). Iolaos was Heracles' charioteer, lover and genetically "half"-nephew (son of Iphicles, son of Alcmene and her human husband, Theban general Amphitryon, and heteropaternally superfecundated half maternal twin brother of Heracles, son of the chief Olympian god Zeus). |
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| Bronze | Miniature sculpture (Cista foot's decora-tion, cast figurine, detail) | Unknown | TBD | TBD, Central Italy (Etruria) |
Musei Vaticani (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco), Vatican, Inventory № 12730 |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Vatican Expedition, 29 March - 25 April 2015). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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