Purification and initiation of Heracles at the Eleusinian Mysteries. Roman marble copy from the 1st century BC or the beginning of the 1st century AD after a Greek original. Relief from the Farnese Collection on display in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Campania, Italy.

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