Inventory Number: | S 33 | |
Section Number: | Ε | |
Title: | Herm as Statue Support | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | A herm used as support for the left arm of la large statue carrying a child. Upper half of the child is missing as well as the entire statue, whose left arm rests on the head of the herm. The base of the herm is somewhat chipped. The child is half draped, and heavy folds of drapery hang down on either side of the herm. The modeling of the child's body, the arm and the drapery is indifferent though effective. The preserved left hand has long pointed fingers and appears to be the hand of a woman. The herm bears the head of a heavily bearded man; the hair shows two rows of round formalized curls; the beard has stylized curling locks. At the right side of the head a single lock hangs from temple to the bottom of the beard. Pentelic marble. Cf. S 2144 (ΣΑ 3253). Cf. the description of the Herm of Alkamenes in Richter (1929) , Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, p. 236, fig. 628 (p. 182, fig. 673 in the 4th edition 1970): "The style of the herm is evidently archaistic, the formal treatment of the hair and beard being conditioned by its architectonic character, for the rendering of the eyes places it in the second half of the fifth century." Our herm appears, likewise, to be a Roman copy of the same work. For the use of a herm as a support, cf. the Madrid Hermes in Reinach (1910), Repertoire IV, p. 98. For the child, cf. Brunn-Bruckman, Plutus, from the Peiraeus. Also cf. Rizzo (1932), Prassitele, pp. 9-10, pl. 14. | |
Context: | Late Roman level. | |
Notebook Page: | 140 | |
Negatives: | Leica, 1-66, 1-68, 1-73, 1-74, 1-75, 1-107, 1-152, 1-153, color slide | |
Dimensions: | P.H. 1.36; H. (herm) 1.02, (head) 0.21; W. (herm) 0.14, (head) 0.13; Th. (herm) 0.165 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Chronology: | 2nd c. A.D. | |
Date: | 4 June 1931 | |
Section: | Ε | |
Grid: | Ε:5/Α | |
H 10 | ||
Elevation: | -2.50m. | |
Masl: | -2.5m. | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), p. 40. | |
Mauzy (2006), pp. 18, 19, figs. 29-32. | ||
Guide (1990), p. 196. | ||
Guide (1976), p. 186. | ||
Guide (1962), p. 122. | ||
JHS 51 (1931), p. 185, fig. 2. | ||
ILN (29 August 1931), p. 337. | ||
Agora XI, no. 210, pp. 161-162, pl. 56. | ||
Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:S 2144 | |
Agora:Object:Richter (1929), p. 236, fig. 628 . | ||
Agora:Object:Reinach (1910), p. 98. | ||
Agora:Object:Brunn-Bruckman, Plutus, from the Peiraeus. | ||
Agora:Object:Rizzo (1932), pp. 9-10, pl. 14. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XI Publication: Museum Guide (2014) Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 181, p. 162 Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177 Images (27) Notebook: Ε-1 Notebook Page: Ε-1-79 (pp. 139-140) Cards and Envelopes (4) |