Full entry by Jeremy Warren and X-Ray Fluorescence report by Yannick Chastang available upon request
Inscription on the base :
HERCVULES BVPHOOPONVS (sic) BESTIARVS QVI TRISTITIAM ORBIS DEPVRIT OMNEM PERAMPIO HOC SIGNO MANTVAE CVRA REFLORESCIT
[Hercules, who loves labour like an ox, fighter of beasts, who cast out all the sadness of the world, comes to life again through this very large monument erected by Mantua (or Mantova)].
Base from a different alloy probably made in Padua, after c. 1540
