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Hermes and the Infant Dionysos, head only

Duplicate head of Hermes

Material: 
Parian marble
Location of Original: 

Olympia Museum

Size: 
0.43m
Accession: 

Bought from the Gipsformerei der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, in 1964

References: 

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 241 (n.6), pl. 84.2
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 71, no.324
Blümel: Hermes eines Praxiteles
Dinsmoor: American Journal of Archaeology XLV (1941), 349-
Kunze & Weber: American Journal of Archaeology LII (1948), 490-
Rhys Carpenter: American Journal of Archaeology XXXV (1931), 249-
Casson: American Journal of Archaeology XXXV, 262-
Cuttle: Antiquity VIII (1934), 151-

Date: 
Mid C4 BCE (if original)
Sculptor: 
Praxiteles (if original)
Provenance: 

Found in the Heraeum at Olympia

Number: 
228a

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