Vatican Museums

Heracles - This gilded bronze statue was found in 1864 in the area of Pompey's Theatre. It was lying horizontally in a trench and covered by a slab of travertine on which the letters F C S (Fulgur Conditum Summanium) had been cut. The statue had, therefore, been struck by lightning and, following the Roman custom, had been granted a ritual burial together with the remains of a lamb. It shows a young Heracles leaning on his club, with the lion skin over his arm, and the apples of the Hesperides in his left hand. The work has been variously dated to between the end of the 1st and the beginning of the 3rd century AD.
The Round Hall, Pio Clementino Museum.
Rome, Italy.