Cast Gallery catalogue number: A069

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Atlas brings the apples of the Hesperides to Herakles who, with Athena, is supporting the heavens.

Plaster cast: Height: 1.63m.
Copy of a marble metope (east 10).
The metope:
- is from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia..
- was made about 460 BC.
- was found at Olympia and is now in Olympia Museum.

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