Statue
Herm
MS3475
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Italy | Latium | Lake Nemi
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS3475 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Italy | Latium | Lake Nemi |
| Period | Roman Period |
| Date Made | 1st century BCE to 1st century CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Marble (Stone) |
| Technique | Carved |
| Iconography | Dionysos? | Faunus | Bacchus |
| Description | White marble, patinated. Mended; complete except for large chip at front. Shaft lacking. Frontal head, beard in long, vertical corkscrew curls. Hair is bound by a fillet which is tied in back and with long dependent ends. At each side of the head, below, is a square cutting for the insertion of the projecting "arms" of the herm. Thought to be Dionysus or possibly Faunus. |
| Height | 45 cm |
| Width | 29.2 cm |
| Depth | 19.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; subscription of Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1897 |
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