Cast Gallery catalogue number: A036

Herakles kneeling to shoot with a bow. He wears a lion-head helmet and a skirted leather cuirass.

• Plaster cast: Height: 86cm.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia on Aigina.
  • was made about 490 BC.
  • was found on Aigina in the early 1800s.
  • is now in Munich, Glyptothek, 84.