Brandenburger Tor: Heracles programme

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This, according to the Lonely Planet guide to Berlin.

substantiate with factual information.

There must be published information about this programme.

5 portals through the Gate.

These are numbered by my reckoning alone here North to South.

Photographs of the faces are from the Parisierplatz side, with North on the right.

Each wall has a rectangular relief and a roundel above it.

The twelve labors are represented:

Nemean Lion [4Nr]

Lernaean Hydra [2Nr]

Stymphalian Birds [4Sr]

Cyrenaean Hind (maybe not)

Erymanthian Boar (maybe not)

Augean Stables (maybe not)

Cretan Bull [1Sr]

Mares of Diomedes [2Sr]

Girdle of Hippolyta [1Nr]

Geryon

Cerberus (included secondarily with Alcestis)

Apples of the Hesperides [3centralNr]

1N Heraclis Apotheosis

1N roundel Hippolyta

1S Heracles Oetaeus

1Sroundel Cretan Bull

2N Preparation of the Pyre?

2N roundel Lerna

2S Hercules kills somebody with an arrow

2S roundel Mares of Diomedes

3(Central)N Herculens Furens? clubbing woman and children?

3centralN roundel Apples of the Hesperides

3(Central)S freeing Laomedeia from Cetus

3centralS roundel Infant with snakes

4N Rape of Deineira ?

4N roundel Nemean Lion

4S dead people at a sacrifice, Herc

4S roundel Stymphalian Birds

5N Alcestis rescued from Underworld

5N roundel Antaeus

5S Heracles auf dem Scheideweg

5S Prometheus