Hercules and Omphale, detail of a Roman mosaic from Llíria

Hercules (left) is dressed in women's clothes. He holds a distaff with wool in his left hand and what appears to be a drop spindle in his right (mosaic is damaged). Omphale is seated (right) nude except for Hercules' traditional lion skin. Hercules' club rests in the crook of her left arm.

Hercules dressed in women's clothes while serving as Omphale's slave. Museo Arqueológica Nacional, Madrid 38315BIS. Photo by Luis García via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

 

Online Resources
Wikimedia Commons
Museo Arqueológica Nacional, Madrid
Associated Passages
463-489
Type
Image
License
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
Date
200-250 CE
Medium
mosaic