Cast Gallery catalogue number: A066

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Herakles rests on the dead Nemean Lion, with Athena and Hermes (now missing) looking on.

Plaster cast: Height: 1.63m.
Copy of a marble metope (west 1).
The metope:
- is from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
- was made about 460 BC.
- was found at Olympia and is now partly in Olympia Museum and partly in Paris, Musée du Louvre.

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