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Hermes upper torso and head

Relief belonging with Figure mounting a Chariot, 42, as the styles are very close and thickness of the slabs identical.

The figure wears a petasos, a travelling hat associated with Hermes. His head is in profile but his body frontal, a typical Archaic trait. The carving is shallow and is reminiscent of contemporary late Archaic vase painting

Number: 
42a
Material: 
Marble
Location of Original: 

Athens Acropolis Museum 1343

Size: 
0.44m
Accession: 

Transferred from the Fitzwilliam in 1884. Originally provided by Martinelli

References: 

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 83 (n.1), pl. 26.2
Schrader: Archaischen Marmorbildwerke des Akropolis (1939), 387-
Payne & Young: Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis, 47-
Dickins: Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum I, 278
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 891, no.59

Date: 
Late C6 BCE
Provenance: 

Found on the Acropolis, Athens, perhaps from an early temple

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