File:Fresco tondo depicting Omphale and Hercules.jpg

Original file(1,887 × 1,881 pixels, file size: 1.9 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: This fresco tondo depicts Queen Omphale of the Lydians hugging Hercules, who was a slave at her court. Note that they’re wearing each other’s clothing, with Omphale donning Hercules’ Nemean Lion skin, and Hercules wearing a woman’s tunic, wreath, and veil.

From ‘the Vesuivian area’ - findspot not known. ca. 45-79 CE.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN inv. 9004)
Date
Source Own work
Author Chappsnet
Camera location40° 51′ 13.18″ N, 14° 15′ 07.02″ E  Heading=145.88203418091° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Captions

Fresco tondo depicting Omphale and Hercules, each wearing the other’s clothing

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

1 May 2024

40°51'13.183"N, 14°15'7.020"E

heading: 145.8820341809087 degree

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:03, 7 June 2024Thumbnail for version as of 21:03, 7 June 20241,887 × 1,881 (1.9 MB)ChappsnetUploaded own work with UploadWizard
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Metadata