“Belvedere Torso”, sitting on a panther skin. 1st century BCE (?). Marble, H. 1.59 m. This colossal fragment bears numerous traces of repairs carried out in antiquity. Old interpretation: it would be "Ajax" after the bronze, H. 29 cm., from the George Ortiz collection: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.georgeortiz.com/objects/roman/220-ajax/">[3]</a>. Other interpretations, more plausible, based on ancient themes: Achilles playing the cythera (this motif exists in the form of an intaglio in the Department of Coins, Medals and Antiquities, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbfkm9">[4]</a>) or it would be Heracles drunk (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heracles_y_Auge_(17485564585).jpg" title="File:Heracles y Auge (17485564585).jpg">Heracles beating Auge</a>, bas-relief). Auge is the daughter of the king of Tegea, Aléos ; she would have conceived Telephus because of this rape. Reference: François Queyrel, 2016, p. 274. Vatican Pio Clementino Museum.
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