8-5055 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Proper right section of cast of Hermes (Latin: Mercury) and Dionysus consisting of Hermes Overall dimensions of assembled cast: Height: 227 cm (89 1/4")(including base that is part of cast, Width/breadth: 76.5 cm, Depth/thickness: 50.5 cm, Width/breadth: 18.5 cm
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the National Museum, Athens
Culture or time period:
Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Person depicted:
Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity) and Hermes (Greek deity)
Hermes carries the infant Dionysos. His authorship of this group is attested by Pausanius. Its dedication of Olympia is improbable. Olympia was a sanctuary, not a town. the group may have been dedicated at Elis, where there was a Dionysos by Praxiteles copied on Elean coins. from a marble found in the ruins of the temple of Hera at Olympia, Greece in May 1878. it lay on its face in mud and tiles before its ancient pedestal. pieces found later, on the stylobate of the Heraion and scattered beyond its ruins.
Loans:
S2005-2006 #3: Department of Classics (UC Berkeley)/Stephen G. Miller (September 23, 2005–September 23, 2006) and S2009-2010 #12 [DEFUNCT]: Academy of Art University (dates unknown)