La notizia è appena stata data dall’Autorità Israeliana per le Antichità, si tratta di una statua di Ercole ed è databile al sec. II d.C.


  1. According to Dr. Walid Atrash of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “This is a rare discovery. The statue, which probably stood in a niche, was part of the decoration of a bathhouse pool that was exposed during the course of the excavations. It is c. 0.5 m tall, is made of smoothed white marble and is of exceptional artistic quality. Hercules is depicted in three dimension, as a naked figure standing on a base. His bulging muscles stand out prominently, he is leaning on a club to his left, on the upper part of which hangs the skin of the Nemean lion, which according to Greek mythology Hercules slew as the first of his twelve labors”.


Il comunicato stampa e le foto ad alta risoluzione sono qui (link temporaneo).