Hercules and Omphale
![The central figure of a nude man wears an ivy-leaf crown and holds a spear in his left hand. His wine cup has fallen to the ground, and he is supported under his right arm by an elderly bearded man. At the right a partially nude woman with a robe draped across her groin and legs leans against the man’s club with her left hand. She wears a lion-skin headdress. Several standing figures look on in the background. Three small childlike figures of erotes are also at play. One blows pipes into the younger man’s left ear; one peeps out from under the robes of the elderly man; and a third attempts to set the wine cup aright.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/pompeii-in-color/objects/hercules-omphale-3/@@images/38bef5e8-aabc-4fe0-a08f-7ee4b7e2fea0.png)
Hercules and Omphale
- Medium:
- Fresco
- Dimensions:
- 162.6 cm wide, 203.2 cm high
- Context:
- House of Marcus Lucretius, triclinium 16, east wall, central section, Pompeii
- Date:
- 1st century CE
- Inventory Number:
- MANN 8992
- Lender:
- National Archaeological Museum of Naples
- Credit:
- Image © Photographic Archive, National Archaeological Museum of Naples