Proceedings of the XXIst International Congress on Ancient Bronzes (Supplementum 4)
Articles

Some Italic Heracles from the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid: Preliminary remarks

Raimon Graells i Fabregat
University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Published 2024-09-30

Keywords

  • XRF analysis,
  • votive figure,
  • bronze forgery,
  • Hellenistic period,
  • pre-Roman Italy

How to Cite

Graells i Fabregat, R. (2024). Some Italic Heracles from the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid: Preliminary remarks. Dissertationes Archaeologicae, 25–31. https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.suppl4.25

Abstract

The paper presents an archaeometallurgical analysis made on a group of Italic bronze figures from the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid (MAN-Madrid) whose common theme is that they all represent Heracles in different attitudes.