Head of Herakles
Maker: Unknown
Ringstone oval, of shell, cut with a cameo head of Herakles in profile to vewer's right wearing a lion's pelt over his head. The shell has been cut so that the face and neck of Herakles are white, the pelt shades of pale brown, and the ground dark reddish-brown.
Height: 2.2 cm
Width: 1.4 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
18th/19th Century
Circa
1775
CE
-
Circa
1850
CE
Surface
Accession number: M.7-2005
Primary reference Number: 118978
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Head of Herakles" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118978 Accessed: 2023-03-28 10:02:53
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118978
|title=Head of Herakles
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-28 10:02:53|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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