Hermes upper torso and head
Relief belonging with Figure mounting a Chariot, 42, as the styles are very close and thickness of the slabs identical.
The figure wears a petasos, a travelling hat associated with Hermes. His head is in profile but his body frontal, a typical Archaic trait. The carving is shallow and is reminiscent of contemporary late Archaic vase painting
Athens Acropolis Museum 1343
Transferred from the Fitzwilliam in 1884. Originally provided by Martinelli
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 83 (n.1), pl. 26.2
Schrader: Archaischen Marmorbildwerke des Akropolis (1939), 387-
Payne & Young: Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis, 47-
Dickins: Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum I, 278
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 891, no.59
Found on the Acropolis, Athens, perhaps from an early temple