Cameo with Hercules and the Nemean Lion within a Garland — Unknown, ca. 1220–40

Cameo with Hercules and the Nemean Lion within a Garland, Unknown

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Holder's headings: Men, Hercules, Lions
Wikidata depicts: lion, man, Heracles, Nemean lion

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Credit: The Milton Weil Collection, 1938
Licence: CC0-1.0
Evidence: metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 467644 (read 2026-08-27)
Record: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467644

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