(Detail) Sarcophagus decorated with Labors of Hercules. (Travaux d'Hercule/ Heracles ; Arbeiten des Herakles). From Roma Vecchia; about 160-170 AD.Thasos marble.The killing of the Nemean lion; the victory over the Lernean Hydra; the fight with the Erymanthian wild boar; the capture of the Hind of Ceryneia; the dispersion of the Stymphalian birds; the retrieval of the belt of the Amazon Hippolyta and the theft of the golden apples from the Garden of Hesperides are the Herculean labours that decorate the Torlonia sarcophagus. MT 422.- Torlonia Collection of ancient sculptures.From the Museo Torlonia (Torlonia Museum) founded in Rome by Prince Alessandro Torlonia in 1875 and dissolved in 1976.The collection of marble and alabaster sculptures dating to the Roman Empire period has been described as the 'most important private museum of sculpture in the world'.Rome; Italy. 2021.