Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Fragmentary Statue of Hermes with a Ram
Alternate Title:
Hermes Kriophoros
Image View:
Overall view from the front
Creator:
after Kalamis (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 470-ca. 440 BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Barracco (Rome, Lazio, Italy) Inv. MB 83
Location Note:
Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 166/A
GPS:
41.896111 12.477222
Date:
Greek original, ca. 470-ca. 440 BCE (creation); Roman copy; 1st century BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Ancient Greek; Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Early Classical; Greco-Roman
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
Pentelic marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
animal; mythology (Classical); Hermes (Greek deity)
Description:
Roman copy from the 1st century BCE of a Greek Early Classical original; found near Rome. It is a copy of the Kriophoros ("ram-bearer") of Kalamis (5th century BCE Greek sculptor). The kriophoros is a figure that commemorates the solemn sacrifice of a ram. It becomes an epithet of Hermes: Hermes Kriophoros. Hermes was associated with shepherds, and the sacrifice of a ram after bearing it around the walls of a city was sometimes done to ward off disease in the name of Hermes. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A2-I-R-MB-HWR-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Fragmentary Statue of Hermes with a Ram