This 1688 marble sculpture is located in the Gardens of the Versailles Palace. It depicts Achelous a young, but bearded, bare-chested man from his head to torso...and then blends into the pedestal with the help of a flowing cloth. The figure holds a cornucopia filled with fruit.
Wikipedia (
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"Achelous was a suitor for Deianeira, daughter of Oeneus king of Calydon, but was defeated by Heracles, who wed her himself. Sophocles pictures a mortal woman's terror at being courted by a chthonic river god:
'My suitor was the river Achelóüs,
who took three forms to ask me of my father:
a rambling bull once, then a writhing snake
of gleaming colors, then again a man
with ox-like face: and from his beard's dark shadows
stream upon stream of water tumbled down.
Such was my suitor.' (Sophocles, Trachiniae)
The contest of Achelous with Heracles was represented on the throne of Amyclae,[12] and in the treasury of the Megarans at Olympia there was a statue of him made by Dontas of cedarwood and gold.[13] On several coins of Acarnania the god is represented as a bull with the head of an old man."
The artist is Simon Maziere.
As for the crater, Wikipedia (
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"Achelous is a relatively fresh crater on Ganymede adjacent to the similarly sized Gula. It has an outer lobate ejecta deposit extending about a crater radius from the rim.
A characteristic feature of both craters, almost identical in size, is the "pedestal" - an outward-facing, relatively gently sloped scarp that terminates the continuous ejecta blanket. Similar features may be seen in ejecta blankets of Martian craters, suggesting impacts into a volatile (ice)-rich target material. Furthermore, both craters appear crisp and feature terraces. Gula has a prominent central peak; Achelous instead may show the remnant of a collapsed central peak or a central pit that is not fully formed. On lower-resolution images taken under higher sun illumination angle, both craters are shown to have extended bright rays, especially Achelous, which demonstrates that these two craters are younger than the respective surrounding landscape."