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Amphora from Campania with Atlas and Heracles

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Amphora from Campania with Atlas and Heracles, 5th century B.C.
London, British Museum, inv. GR 1722,0320.432

Atlas hastens to retrieve the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides. He then delivers them to Heracles, who has momentarily taken over the tremendous burden of holding up the globe of the Earth.