This marble bust depicts the head of a young Hercules, produced in Rome after a Greek work of about 340 BC. This head is of the same type as on the 'Lansdowne Herakles', a statue attributes to the Greek sculptor Skopas. A number of Roman copies exist of this statue or of the head alone exist. The complete herm would have consisted of a 4-cornered pillar topped by the head.

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