Plaster cast
- Museum number:
- 21-55
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21210000055
- Alternate number:
- 8-5055 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
- Accession number:
- Acc.193
- Description:
- plaster cast - Hermes (Latin: Mercury) in 2 parts
- Donor:
- Alfred Emerson
- 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
- Materials:
- Plaster
- Person depicted:
- Hermes (Greek deity)
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Accession date:
- 1905
- Department:
- Casts and molds
- Dimensions:
- assembled cast— depth 95 centimeters, assembled cast— height 227 centimeters, and assembled cast— width 124 centimeters
- Comment:
- 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.
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