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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
And, to add my 2c, it's my understanding that that particular chalk sculpture was likely carved by occupying Roman soldiers, to represent Herakleus/Hercules, who was commonly represented as shown.
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Current thought leans heavily towards a theory of being a 17th century creation. Hill carvings hundreds of feet high are pretty noteworthy, which makes the lack of any historical record of it prior to then hard to explain.