ID: 700001262 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001262	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Commodus as Hercules (sculpture (visual works); unknown Roman; 192 CE; Capitoline Museums (Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy); MC1120)

Note: Depicts the Roman emperor as Hercules, with whom the emperor associated himself during his reign. Discovered in 1874 in the underground chambers of Horti Lamiani.

Titles:

Commodus as Hercules (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Commodus Hercules (C,U,English,U,U)

Hercule Commode (C,U,French,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: 192 CE

Creator Display:

unknown Roman [preferred,VP]

sculptors unknown Ancient Roman (Ancient Roman cultural designation) [500202843]

Locations:

Current: Capitoline Museums (Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy) [500403545] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: MC1120

Other: Discovery: Lamian Gardens [8711534] Esquilino (hill), Rome (inhabited place), Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: marble

	marble (rock) [300011443]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), metamorphic rock)

Dimensions: height: 133 cm (52 inches)

Cultures:

Ancient Roman (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Commodus, Emperor of Rome (Roman emperor, 161-192 CE) [500355670]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	half figure [300047469]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

	Hercules [901000042]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	lion skin [300343608]
	.....(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, collagenous material, skin (collagenous material)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Commodus as Hercules	........ [VP]
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-)
	........ Haskell and Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture (1982)
	........ Scala Art Resource, New York [online] (2000-)
Commodus Hercules	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Hercule Commode	........ [VP]
	........ Haskell and Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture (1982)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Haskell and Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture (1982)