Identifier: catalogueofbronz00brit (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944
Subjects: Bronzes -- Catalogs Art, Ancient
Publisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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In the centre is an elaborate rosette, of twenty-four points, as on the last, within concentric rings and two bands of intersecting arches. On the l. is Heracles in combat with the Hydra. Heracles to r. nude, seizes with l. hand the neck of the Hydra, which has six heads, and rears up against him; in r. hand he holds a sword of the type of Fig. 78, No. 2737. At his feet is the crab of Hera, apparently about to seize his r. foot in its claws. Below is a diminutive man (Iolaos?) to r., only one of whose legs is indicated, holding out a twig (?) in r. hand across the Hydra's body (perhaps a cord which he is binding round it); on either side of him is a bird apparently pecking at him, and on either side of the Hydra is a bird. Above on the r. are two more birds, pecking at the Hydra (?), and another on the l. side of Heracles; on the l. are five fishes to r., one above the other. The right
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side is nearly all lost, but part of a horse to l. is visible, covered with a saddle-cloth with crenellated border; in the field are eight birds, all but one to the l. At the ends are two rows of chevron pattern.

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