On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Plaque with Hercules and the Hydra,
4th century CE
Roman
Roman Imperial Period, ca. 30 BCE–476 CE
y1971-35
Information
Title
Plaque with Hercules and the Hydra
Dates
4th century CE
Medium
Bronze inlaid with copper, silver, and brass
Dimensions
18.8 x 9.0 cm (7 3/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
y1971-35
Place Made
Roman Empire, likely the Eastern Mediterranean
Culture
Period
Materials
Purchased from Mathias Komor, New York, in 1971.
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"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1971," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 31 no. 1 (1972): p. 20-32.
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- Kurt Weitzmann, "The late Roman world", Bulletin (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 35, no. 2 (Autumn, 1977): p. 2-96., p. 29
- Herbert Beck and Peter C. Bol, Spatantike und fruhes Christentum: Ausstellung im Liebieghaus Museum alter Plastik, Frankfurt am Main: 16. Dezember 1983 bis 11. Marz 1984, (Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1977)., p. 858, no. 181 (illus.)
- "The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 36, no. 2 (1977): p. 24-32., p. 30
- Kurt Weitzmann, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh: catalogue of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 1977, through February 12, 1978, (New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979)., cat. no. 137 (illus.); pl. 3 (color illus.)
- John Boardman, et. al., Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC), (Zürich: Artemis Verlag, 1981-2009)., Vol. 1: p. 25, Acheloos 216
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- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 100 (illus.)
- Charles Truman, ed., Sotheby’s concise encyclopedia of silver, (London: Conran Octopus, 1993).
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 263 (illus.)
- Glenda M. Swan, "Hercules cleaning the Augean Stables on a Roman bronze plaque", Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 69 (2010): p. 30-41., p. 38; fig. 9
- A. Lazaridou, ed., Transition to Christianity: art of late antiquity, 3rd-7th century AD, (New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation; Athens: In collaboration with the Byzantine and Christian Museum, 2011)., p. 131; cat. no. 91
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 279
