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K11.12 HERMA STATUE

Herma Statue | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
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.

ARTICLES

Hermes