A: Nude Heracles standing to front, holding a club in his lowered right hand, lion's skin in his left hand. To his left, Athena standing to front, head to right, wearing peplos and helmet, holding a shield in her lowered right hand and a spear pointing downwards in her left hand. Greek inscription above the figures, in two lines: θες[---]|βο[---] → unidentified voces; in the exergue, in two lines: ηρακλουρα|βοηθε → Ἡράκλ<εις> οὐρά<νιε> βοήθε<ι>. 'Heavenly Heracles, help!'
B: Harpocrates sitting nude with knees drawn up, to left, upon a lotus flower with two buds. Left hand bent in elbow and holding a flail, resting on the shoulder. Above Harpocrates, a crescent open to top, near the flower an eight-pointed star. Between the moon and the star, Greek inscription in two lines: υδοισινεγη|ακτι → unidentified voces.
Bibliography
Georg Zoëga, in Musei d'Italia III /1880/, 438-39, no. 31. A series of drawings designed for the Zoëga-catalogue is now preserved at Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen; for CBd-3027 see D1369.
Image-ID 9773
Credits www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk
Rights Thorvaldsens Museum / Public Domain
Notes Drawing preserved at Thorvaldsens Museum, inv. no. D1369