Drunken Hercules

Satyr with the goat-footed god Pan support the drunken Herakles

A remarkable marble ossuary in the form of a sarcophagus is decorated on all four sides. It was found in Lykia, around AD 150-200. One of the long sides has a depiction of the dead married couple, while in the centre Aphrodite writes their names on a shield supported by an Erotideus. At the right is Bellerophon and his winged horse, Pegasos. At the left end of the other long side is a depiction of the seizure of the Palladion by Diomedes and Odysseus, and at the right Aphrodite and a hero flank a trophy. A Centaur wrestles with a bearded man on one narrow side and a Satyr with the goat-footed god Pan support the drunken Herakles on the other.

in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens

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