K11.12 HERMA STATUE

Museum Collection | Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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Catalogue No. | - |
Beazley Archive No. | - |
Ware | Attic Red Figure |
Shape | Lekythos |
Painter | - |
Date | ca 475 B.C. |
Period | Late Archaic |
DESCRIPTION
Detail of a Herma statue--a rustic fertility statue of the god Hermes. The herma is depicted as a plinth with the bearded head of the god, an erect phallus, and inscribed herald's wand (kerykeion), the symbol of the god.