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Terracotta Bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2008

Terracotta Bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2008
Terracotta Bowl
Roman, lead-glazed ware, 1st half of the 1st century AD

Accession # 17.120.251

The figure may represent Hercules performing one of his twelve labors-- carrying off the Erymanthian boar, a scene that was long familiar from Greek art.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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