Duplicate head of Hermes
Number:
228a
Material:
Parian marble
Location of Original:
Olympia Museum
Size:
0.43m
Accession:
Bought from the Gipsformerei der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, in 1964
References:
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 241 (n.6), pl. 84.2
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 71, no.324
Blümel: Hermes eines Praxiteles
Dinsmoor: American Journal of Archaeology XLV (1941), 349-
Kunze & Weber: American Journal of Archaeology LII (1948), 490-
Rhys Carpenter: American Journal of Archaeology XXXV (1931), 249-
Casson: American Journal of Archaeology XXXV, 262-
Cuttle: Antiquity VIII (1934), 151-
Date:
Mid C4 BCE (if original)
Sculptor:
Praxiteles (if original)
Provenance:
Found in the Heraeum at Olympia
