Colossal head of Hercules. Pentelic marble. The statue can be attributed to Polycles, a Greek artist who - according to Cicero - worked in rome around the middle of the first century BC. Cicero describes the statue in a passage about a monument erected by the Metelli family - Museo Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

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Colossal head of Hercules. Pentelic marble. The statue can be attributed to Polycles, a Greek artist who - according to Cicero - worked in rome around the middle of the first century BC. Cicero describes the statue in a passage about a monument erected by the Metelli family - Museo Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

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Size: 3391px × 5086px
Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Photo credit: © Stefano Ravera / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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