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Cinerary urn with reliefs depicting Heracles (Hercules) beginning in the Eleusinian Mysteries. White marble. From the columbarium near Porta Maggiore. Dated probably early Roman Imperial period. Palaz
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Herakles initiated to the Elusianian Mysteries. Detail showing a priestess holding a wicker screen (liknon) over the head of the initiate who is covered by a lion skin. Marble cinerary urn with bas-reliefs. Early Imperial Roman, inspired by late Hellenistic models from Alexandria. 
Location Museo Nazionale Romano (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme)/Rome/Italy
Unique Identifier ART383704 
Type Image 
Purpose Public 
Size 3564px × 5388px 
Photo Credit © Vanni Archive/ Art Resource, NY 
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1st century BCE
1st century CE
Cinerary Urn
Eleusis, Greece
Hellenistic Period (330-27 BCE)
Hercules
Imperial Roman (27 BCE-396 CE)
Initiation
Marble
Relief
Sculpture