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http://agathe.gr/guide/northwest_corner_and_the_hermes.html Northwest Corner and the Hermes The area of the northwest corner is where the Panathenaic Way, leading from the main gate of Athens, the Dipylon, entered the Agora square (Figs. 58, 59). This was accordingly ... AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Northwest Corner and the Hermes |
http://agathe.gr/democracy/the_athenian_army.html The Athenian Army From the very beginning, the Athenians were compelled to fight for their new democracy. Their dramatic victories over the Boiotians and Chalkidians in 506 B.C. led many to attribute Athenian ... victory of the Athenian army ... democracies. Fragment of an Athenian ... of the tribes. In their |
| Index. General Index. Acropolis. Archaistic art. Aegina. archaic Temple of Aphaia. Ageladas. Archaistic drapery. Agora. Aiantis. Aigeis. Aigeus. Archaistic dress. Aischines. Archaistic sculpture. Akamas ... Agora 11 178 ... Herm of Strombichos ... archaic Temple of Aphaia ... Herm |
Broken off: the head of the herm and the upper part of the boy squatting beside it.
Rectangular base for herm and boy; the herm set askew. Cistern. Leica ... April 1938 ... Herm and Squatting Boy Figurine |
Head of bearded man of which third of head at back, nose and parts of beard chipped off.
Archaistic curls at brow line.
Pentelic marble. Stony Byzantine fill. Leica ... Presumably Roman ... Herm Head |
| High rectangular shaft with block-arms at the top. Long tresses of hair hang to each side of the chest and in a mass at the back. A fruit (half-peeled fig?) on the right shoulder and missing from the left ... 5 April 1947 ... Herm |
| Shaft of a small herm, head broken off at neck. Bottom of shaft and phallus broken off.
Drilled holes in the sides for attachment of the arms. Traces of a mass of hair down the back and a single long ... 5 April 1950 ... Herm Shaft |
| Inscribed fragment of Herm.
Head and lower part missing.
On sides, cuttings for "arms". Traces of beard and drapery on upper part. Fourth and part of fifth.
Dedication to Iamblichos.
At least twenty-two ... February 1936 ... Herm Fragment |
Base and right arm missing.
The figure is crudely modeled by hand from a solid plaque of clay. The reverse is quite flat.
Type TKI, p. 231 - None so crude. Assembly Place, filling of Period III ... 17 December 1930 ... Herm |
| Small head of a herm with arms, foot below armholes, and the point of the beard missing.
A fairly carefully worked version of the Hermes Propylaios type.
Pentelic marble. Clearing edges of Great Drain, ... 29 April 1937 ... Small head of a herm ... armholes, and the point of the ... carefully worked version of the |
| Complete save for a chip at the right side of the head.
Bearded man wearing a high headdress.
No trace of color.
Buff clay. Cistern, dug bedrock and brown earth fill. Coroplast 's dump.
4th c. B.C. sherds ... 11 April 1938 ... Complete save for a chip at the right side of the ... high headdress.
No trace of |
| Left side of face and back of head broken away; broken off at neck. Archaizing bearded head (of the "Alcamenes" type).
Pentelic marble. Turkish fill. Leica, LXXII-45, LXXII-46 ... 1 March 1937 ... Herm Head |
| Three joining fragments from left side of a large Herm.
Hole where arm-stump is broken off; long braid of hair down chest.
Hollow; fine thin fabric. White paint, and traces of black (?) over white. Yellow ... 11 May 1935 ... from left side of a large Herm.
Hole where arm-stump is broken off; long braid of hair |
| Inscribed Herm shaft.
Broken across neck and tendon, and irregularly at bottom.
Back rough picked, other surfaces smooth. Tendon originally. Arm socket on proper left side. Front has membrum virile in ... 10 August 1970 ... W. 0.268, (of tendon) ... side) 0.044, (of right side) 0.038; H. (of tendon) ca. |
| Bearded head, crowned with elaborate garland most of which is broken off.
Broken off below.
Hole at back near bottom.
White painted, with traces of red over, on hair, lips and beard. Black and pink ribbons ... 29 February 1936 ... Herm |
| Archaistic, bearded male head, broken away below. The tip of the nose missing; otherwise the head is complete and unweathered.
The beard represented by wavy lines; the arrangement of the hair is also stylized: ... Roman period ... Herm Head |
| Broken at top, bottom and one side.
Fragment preserves full thickness with part of drapery at right side and lower part of chlamys.
Pentelic marble.
From the same double herm as S 1794 (Ι 1278). From undisturbed ... Latest Hellenistic or early Roman ... Herm Fragment |
| Inscribed Herm base.
Part of top west surface broken away.
Inscribed front. Socket for insertion of Herm above. Within socket, a round dowel hole, with lead remains. Smoothly finished sides, back tooth ... 17 July 1970 ... H. 0.35, (of socket) 0.34; L. 0.68; W. 0.63, (of socket) 0.265; D. (of socket) |
Broken below; the head missing and one of the arms.
Square pillar; a long curl hangs down at either side of both faces.
Red clay, thin red to brown glaze (?). Northeast corner of Middle Stoa. Burnt debris ... 7 June 1951 ... Herm Fragment |
| The face, about life-size, is preserved, the chin missing and the cheeks broken away.
The top of the head has its original surface, a smooth-finished one across its front, with rough-picked surface behind ... 18 June 1935 ... Shelves East of Stoa, missing since 1962 |
| Fragment of a marble cover tile, tegula, on which the figure of a herm has been rudely outlined by chipping.
Island marble. East extension of road cut, gravel filling of early drain. 2210 Leica ... 17 April 1937 ... Herm in Relief |
| Gigantomachy. Herakles. Gorgons. Gouge. Graces. Grave monuments. Gravestones. Herculaneum. Herm. Hermaphrodite. Hermathena. Hermeracles. Hermes. Griffin-bird. Hermes Agoraios. Groups. Gymnasia. Altar of ... Agora 11 181 ... Altar of Hermes ... Hermes; Conductor of Souls ... Hermes; Leader of the Nymphs |
| Broken above and below.
Herm with short cloak (chlamys?) and tapering lower shaft. Cloak reveals buttocks but not genitals. In the sides of the shaft below the edge of the cloak are rectangular attachment ... Roman period ... Herm Fragment |
| Inscribed Herm base.
Inscribed front; front partly covered with cement of late Roman usage.
Largely imbedded on back and right.
Exekestides.
Hymettian marble. Found in situ, on North Stele Annex of the ... 20 June 1970 ... Herm Base |
| Fragment preserving left side of beard and part of lower lip of herm head, probably about life-size.
Underside of beard is rough, showing drill channels by which it was separated from the neck. Locks of ... December 1954 ... Herm Beard Fragment |
| Herm used as handle of a bronze vessel, slanting diagonally out from rim.
The fragment of rim to which it is attached is badly corroded as are the back and lower sides of the herm. The face from the eyes ... 23 May 1936 ... Herm used as handle of a ... sides of the herm. The face ... fragment of rim to which it is |
| Head and very upper part of pillar preserved, including part of the rectangular cutting for left arm stub. Nose, mouth and chin damaged. Beardless, rather full face. Double row of curls across forehead, ... Roman period ... of pillar preserved, including part of the rectangular ... Double row of curls across |
| Fragment from upper back part of shaft with end of back hair. Remains of cuttings for arms. Hair in horizontal waves; strands carved at edges only.
Pentelic marble. From marble pile originally behind Stoa ... January 1955 ... Fragment from upper back part of shaft with end of back hair. Remains of ... From marble pile originally behind Stoa of Attalos. |
| Fragment of back of head, life-size.
Middle granular because of having been burned.
Part of back of neck, with hair falling over it; a fillet bound around the head.
Careful work, and rather good. Perhaps ... 20 February 1936 ... Fragment of back of ... granular because of having been burned.
Part of back of neck, |
| Broken away diagonally from the back of the head to the right side of the face. The right ear and curls around the right cheek missing. The nose, left eye and end of beard chipped. Part of the neck on ... Early Roman period (?) ... from the back of the head to the right side of the face ... end of beard chipped. Part |
| Fragment of a very small bust. The head and the left side below the neck are missing; part of the right side broken away. Some of the smooth finished back and side surface, and of the rougher bottom surface, ... 24 July 1931 ... Fragment of a very small ... missing; part of the right side broken away. Some of the |
| Inscribed fragment.
Front face and one side preserved of a section of the left shoulder.
Fragments of three lines of the inscription preserved.
White marble; front face is polished.
Cf. I 7537. Finished ... 26 June 1981 ... preserved of a section of the left shoulder.
Fragments of three lines of the ... Found in area I in fill in Room 7 of the Byzantine House Complex; layer VIII. |
| Part of top and right side of head, ear and hair preserved.
The hair is schematized in wavy lines on top and bound with a plain round fillet. Round the face it is finished with four rows of small tight ... 13 March 1933 ... Herm Head Fragment |
| Rectangular block, from small herm, plain finished, one end flanged for setting into a socket where it was fastened with a pin. A deep hole in the upper (or lower) face.
Pentelic marble. 4th. c. B.C. filling ... 4th. c. B.C ... Herm Arm |
| Mended from five pieces. Missing: end of nose, edge of left ear; right shoulder and back; small breaks in drapery and neck on left side, slice of hair over the right temple.
The height of the bust is ... Ca. 215-225 A.D ... Missing: end of nose, edge of ... slice of hair over the right temple.
The height of the bust |
| Head missing, and pedestal.
Long vertical hole through middle. The hair falls in mass behind, with two curly locks over each shoulder.
White painted, and traces of red color over white. Mixed fill in drain ... 11 June 1935 ... traces of red color over |
| Bearded herm head of Archaic type. Back of head broken away above, hair around brow damaged, nose and chin broken away, surface damaged. Full height preserved. Front of neck forms a tongue (width broken), ... Early 5th century B.C ... Herm Head |
| Complete but unfinished.
Life-sized herm with portrait head of a man with short curly hair and himation falling over left shoulder.
Measuring points on chin and hair. Arm sockets not yet cut.
Chisel and ... 15 June 1959 ... Complete but unfinished.
Life-sized herm with portrait head of a man with short curly ... Built into late Roman wall north of great north retaining wall of Eleusinion. |
| Inscribed Herm base.
Mended and restored in cement, including much of upper right front surface.
Mouldings run at three sides: fascia crowned ovolo at top and cyma reversa over fascia at bottom. Back rough ... 20 May 1970 ... H. 0.425, (of cutting) ... top) 0.805, (of cutting) 0.35; D. (at top) 0.725, (of |
| Fragment from proper right side of a very large head with beard and corkscrew curls. Preserved is part of the side of the neck, and of the face with the right eye and beard, the fillet round the front ... Roman period ... right side of a very large ... part of the side of the neck, and of the face with |
| A male head, greater than life, broken off at the root of the neck, its face missing. A small fragment shows the finished side of the herm at the shoulders.
The hair is drawn down from the crown regularly ... May 1933 ... Herm Head Fragment |
| Square herm with sockets for beam-like arms; head missing.
A few anatomical indications at the base of the neck.
The back has been used as a threshold.
Inscribed across bottom.
Pentelic marble. Finished ... 7 November 1934 ... Inscribed Herm: Dedication |
| Broken all around.
Fragment of shoulder with slot for arm, and of back surface with hair hanging down.
Coarse grained white marble. Old Grid: ca. 96/ΝΗ. From modern house wall of Asteroskopeiou Street ... 14 March 1955 ... Broken all around.
Fragment of shoulder with slot for arm, and of back ... From modern house wall of Asteroskopeiou Street. |
| End of nose missing; broken below. Three very shallow holes perhaps for attachment, on underside of beard.
Filleted archaistic small head with beard and mustache. Hair dressed over forehead in two rows ... Roman period ... End of nose missing; ... attachment, on underside of beard ... in two rows of snail |
| Fragment from the proper left side of the beard of a large herm, broken all around. End of mustache, corner of mouth and two rows of curling locks are preserved. Each lock is ridged and the curling end ... Roman period ... Herm Beard Fragment |
| Fragment from upper part of head, proper left side.
Preserves left ear and part of left eye, left forehead and forehead hair and a part of the top hair. Three rows of corkscrew curls below a fillet, flat, ... December 1954 ... of head, proper left side.
Preserves left ear and part of ... forehead hair and a part of the |
A segment from the back of the head.
The hair in deep wavy grooves, radiating from the crown of the head, runs down to a fillet, below which the surface is smooth.
Pentelic marble.
Joins S 539 (Ν 179) ... Early Roman period (?) ... A segment from the back of the head.
The hair in ... from the crown of the head, ... Byzantine building, Room XXVII, above south corner of the Altar of the Twelve |
| Broken at neck; end of beard gone; chipped above brow.
Head of herm with archaic hairstyle, long and bound with fillet; locks looped through fillet in front of ear at each temple.
Much worn.
Pentelic ... 19 May 1952 ... Miniature Herm Head |
| Broken at level of mouth. Back broken away. Battered (locks on proper left side gone).
From copy of the Pergamon Alcamenes herm type.
Weathering probably more modern than ancient.
Pentelic marble. From ... January 1955 ... Herm Beard Fragment |
Inscribed fragment of Herm.
Broken off above and below; the left side of the inscribed face missing.
Seven lines of the inscription preserved, half of an eighth below.
Pentelic marble. Found in modern ... 26 January 1938 ... Inscribed fragment of Herm.
Broken off above and below; the left side of the ... Found in modern context west of the Panathenaic Way, west of the Eleusinion. |
| Piece of marble revetment on which is incised a herm,
One edge rounded, the others broken.
Pentelic marble. Cistern, layer II. Leica, LIX-76 ... 14 April 1937 ... Graffito Herm |
| Small bust, right side of head broken away. Smooth surface behind and below.
A bearded head with drooping, curling mustache and long hair falling behind ear over shoulder, crowned with ivy wreath. Drill ... Roam period ... Head of Dionysos in Herm ... of head broken away ... corners of mouth; lips parted. |
| Preserves the mouth, the beard (save tip), the cheek with a little of the hair and traces of front part of ears, the front upper part of neck with a little of the hair or mantle on either side.
The condition ... 3 February 1932 ... Herm Head Fragment |
| Broken below and minor chips.
Statuette of Herakles in the form of a herm. He is bearded, wears the lion skin over his head, and has a cloak drawn tightly around his body.
The proper right side flat; proper ... Hellenistic (?) ... Herm of Herakles |
| The relief surface where unfinished is rough-picked. On all other faces the stone is broken. The shaft with the phallus and rectangular projection below the shoulder line stands on a rectangular base ... 6 April 1935 ... The head is that of the young, beardless Hermes |
| Post behind and above head missing as is right arm and chip from left. Mended from several pieces.
Sleeping Silenus, set on and resting against a vertical, tapering post. Thick wool fillet around neck, ... 2nd c. A.D ... Herm of Silenus |
| A bearded head, with part of the beard, the upper right side of the face, the nose, and all the back of the head, broken off. Surfaces much battered.
Snail-shell curls, with drill holes, around the forehead ... Roman period ... part of the beard, the upper right side of the face, the nose, and all the back of the |
| Fragment from lower part of shaft, preserving tenon for insertion in plinth.
From stage front of Odeion.
Greenish white Karystos (?) marble.
From same series as S 553 (Ν 263), S 554 (Ν 264), S 558 (Ο ... 26 March 1949 ... Herm Shaft Fragment |
| Complete except for right hand, a bit of the caduceus and a fragment from the left arm, where there is a break, and an iron dowel, which joined the two parts in antiquity; the head made separately and ... 18 May 1938 ... Statue of Hermes |
| Fragment from an inscribed Herm.
Broken at top, right side, back and bottom.
Part of the chest, and a strand of hair left preserved.
Part of eleven lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble ... Ca. 166/7 A.D ... inscribed Herm.
Broken at top, ...
Part of the chest, and a strand of hair left preserved ... Found in the wall of the |
| Head, neck, and forepart of figure's right arm bent in front of chest, are missing; broken off below, probably towards bottom of post in which statue ends. Club damaged.
The upper portion of the figure ... Roman period ... of figure's right arm bent in front of chest, are ... probably towards bottom of post ... Wall of modern well. |
| Broken at top and left; bottom much worn but perhaps close to original edge; back smooth finished.
Ends of drooping mustache hanging down on either side. Front surface much weathered.
Pentelic marble ... 17 June 1950 ... Herm Beard Fragment |
| Mended from two pieces; broken off above and below, head and arms missing.
A nude figure, rising out of a rectangular block. To the left hangs a lion skin.
Rosso Antico. Finished From south channel, rock ... Roman period ... Herm of Herakles |
| Completely preserved except for phallus. The top of the head is flat and rough-picked, and was probably originally finished with stucco.
Realistic portrait of an elderly man, the lines and folds of flesh ... Period of Hadrian ... Herm Portrait: Inscribed |
| Statue of Hermes ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 10 Oct 2023 ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 10 Oct 2023 ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 10 Oct 2023 ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... Craig Mauzy ... Horizontal (normal) ... 10 Oct 2023 ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Statue of Hermes ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Relief of herm ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Relief of herm. |
| Herm of Silenus ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Herm of Silenus. |
| Herm of Silenus ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Herm of Silenus. |
| Statue of Hermes ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... Statue of Hermes. |
| Arm of Herm ... Horizontal (normal) ... Arm of Herm |
| Herm of Herakles ... Horizontal (normal) ... Herm of Herakles |
| Relief of Herm ... Horizontal (normal) ... Relief of Herm |
| Herm of Herakles ... Craig Mauzy ... Raw files in Public / Photography / Unworked / Projects / 2016.07. Objects Horizontal (normal) ... 9 Nov 2016 ... Herm of Herakles. |
| Herm of Herakles ... Craig Mauzy ... Raw files in Public / Photography / Unworked / Projects / 2016.07. Objects Horizontal (normal) ... 9 Nov 2016 ... Herm of Herakles. |
| Herm of Herakles ... Craig Mauzy ... Raw files in Public / Photography / Unworked / Projects / 2016.07. Objects Horizontal (normal) ... 9 Nov 2016 ... Herm of Herakles. |
| Herm of Herakles ... Craig Mauzy ... Raw files in Public / Photography / Unworked / Projects / 2016.07. Objects Horizontal (normal) ... 9 Nov 2016 ... Herm of Herakles. |
| Rectangular object with small rectangular projection at one end, with smooth finished surfaces, except end, which is rough-picked.
Pentelic marble. Cistern, dirt pile. Leica ... 9 April 1937 ... Arm of Herm |
| Broken off below the neck.
Bearded male head with high headdress.
Similar to the two preceding (T 1664-1665).
Pinkish clay. Cistern, dug bedrock and brown earth fill.
Coroplast 's dump.
4th c. B.C. sherds ... 11 April 1938 ... Head of Herm |
Part of rim preserved.
Herm. Msc: prob from jar dated in the term of =BAKXIOS= andr,
=ARISTEUS= andr (KT 1528)* Well. Ἐπὶ Θευπόμπου Ἀμεινοκλῆς
herm
(in O) Leica ... 26 February 1936 ... Part of rim preserved.
Herm ... Msc: prob from jar dated in the term of =BAKXIOS= andr,
=ARISTEUS= andr (KT ... Ἐπὶ Θευπόμπου Ἀμεινοκλῆς
herm
(in O) |
| Head and upper part of shaft. Nose and left eye battered. Broken below, but end of pinhole preserved, not centered.
White marble. Built into Byzantine Wall I. Leica ... 21 May 1957 ... Miniature Herm Head |
| The lower right side of the back of the head is preserved.
The hair is indicated by shallow grooves and formalized curves, except where it seems to have been worn in a braid across the back of the neck ... 9 March 1932 ... Fragment of Re-cut Herm ... The lower right side of the back of the head is |
Inscribed fragment.
Head broken off at neck and at bottom of chest.
Broken where stele begins.
Inscribed across chest. Found in butress two of the late Roman Round Building. 1756 Leica ... 23 March 1972 ... Inscribed fragment.
Head broken off at neck and at bottom of chest.
Broken where ... Found in butress two of the late Roman Round Building. |
| 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 ... 2nd c. A.D ... Herm as Statue Support |
Edmonson, Colin N ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 19 48-50+212 10.2307_1353969 ... 1982 ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
| Preserved to just below neck.
Features blurred, but eyes and mustache still distinguishable. Lower part of beard broken off. Surface badly battered; fillet on head barely distinguishable.
Hermes Propylaios ... 24 April 1956 ... Herm Head |
Part of rim preserved.
Rectangular stamp; herm. Klepsydra antechamber; sandy layers above level of debris, toward north. [ Ἐ]πὶ Ἀρισταί
[ν]ου Ἀρχαγό
[ρα] Κνίδιον
[herm head r.] Leica ... 3 June 1938 ... Part of rim preserved.
Rectangular stamp; herm ... Klepsydra antechamber; sandy layers above level of debris, toward north ... [ Ἐ]πὶ Ἀρισταί
[ν]ου Ἀρχαγό
[ρα] Κνίδιον
[herm head r.] |
| Inscribed herm portrait ... Craig Mauzy ... Detail of image in the booklet Reviving the Athenian Agora (2012), p. 57. Horizontal (normal) ... 17 May 2012 ... Detail of image in the booklet Reviving the Athenian Agora (2012), p. 57. |
| Inscribed fragment.
Top, bottom, front and part of back broken away.
Inscribed on two sides.
Pentelic marble.
ADDENDA Joins I 1809. Found in pier of the late Roman Circular Building. 2273 Leica, 88-132, ... 14 June 1972 ... Herm Shaft Fragment |
| Small bearded male head, broken off below; chipped and stained.
Head with full beard and mustache; the hair bound by a fillet. About a quarter life-size.
Pentelic marble. Byzantine sand fill east of Great ... 31 March 1948 ... Byzantine sand fill east of Great Drain. |
Broken top and bottom.
Head missing.
Bottom of square beard and locks of hair on shoulders preserved.
Pentelic marble. 33-N written in the upper right corner of the card. Pre-war marble pile. Leica, ... 14 February 1952 ... Miniature Herm Shaft Fragment |
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