On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Appliqué of Herakles battling the river god Achelöos,
ca. 520–500 BCE
Etruscan
Archaic Period, ca. 600–480 BCE
2015-6765
Information
Title
Appliqué of Herakles battling the river god Achelöos
Dates
ca. 520–500 BCE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
6.7 × 5.6 × 2.3 cm (2 5/8 × 2 3/16 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Classical Purchase Fund
Object Number
2015-6765
Place Made
Europe, Italy, Etruria (central Italy) or southern Italic peninsula
Culture
Period
Materials
Techniques
Purchased by the Museum from Royal Athena Galleries in 2015
- Irish Bronze Age, Egyptian, western asiatic, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities; Islamic pottery and metalwork, (London: Sotheby's, 1966)., lot no. 159
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Important antiquities, (London: Christie's, 1999).
, lot no. 118 -
Jerome M. Eisenberg and F. Williamson Price, Art of the ancient world: Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine, Egyptian, Near Eastern & prehistoric antiquities, (New York: Royal-Athena Galleries, 2015).
, no. 17 - "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2015," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 75/76 (2016-17): 102-125., p. 123
