Unknown
Roman

Herakles, 4th c. BCE, last quarter
marble
32 x 22 x 8 1/4 in.

SBMA, Gift of Wright S. Ludington
1978.4.5

SBMA CURATORIAL LABELS

The remains of stone matrix below the left armpit, on the left thigh, and on the upper buttock enable us to reconstruct this torso as a version of the Weary Herakles, a statue type attributed to the fourth-century sculptor Lysipos. The Weary Herakles shows the hero resting on his great club (which is tucked up under his left arm and cushioned by a lion's skin that falls down along his left leg) and holding behind his back three apples. He has just completed the last of his 12 labors, the retrieval of the golden apples from the garden of Hesperides.

SBMA Wall Text, 201,, excerpted from Maria A. Del Chiaro, Classical Art Sculpture, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1984