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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure EUR-ita-045. Heracles' charioteer, lover and genetically "half"-nephew Iolaos (son of Iphicles, son of Alcmene and her human husband, Theban general Amphitryon, and heteropaternally superfecundated half maternal twin brother of Heracles, son of the chief Olympian god Zeus) cauterizing the stumps of the severed Hydra's heads with a flaming torch to prevent them from growing again; Heracles cutting off one of the nine Lernean Hydra's bearded snake heads with his sickle-sword (The Second Labour). |
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| Ceramic (earthenware), polychrome pigments |
Vase painting (Attic black-figure amphora, painted decoration, detail) |
TBD | TBD | TBD, Central Italy (Etruria) |
Museo Nazionale Etrusco, Rome, Inventory № ? |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Italian Expedition, 29 March - 25 April 2015). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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