Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Fragmentary Statue of Hermes with a Ram
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Fragmentary Statue of Hermes with a Ram
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Alternate Title:
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Hermes Kriophoros
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Image View:
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Overall view from the front
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Creator:
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after Kalamis (Ancient Greek sculptor, active ca. 470-ca. 440 BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Barracco (Rome, Lazio, Italy) Inv. MB 83
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Location Note:
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Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 166/A
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GPS:
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+41.896111+12.477222
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Date:
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Greek original, ca. 470-ca. 440 BCE (creation); Roman copy; 1st century BCE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Ancient Greek; Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Early Classical; Greco-Roman
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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Pentelic marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Subjects:
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animal; mythology (Classical); Hermes (Greek deity)
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Description:
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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)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A2-I-R-MB-HWR-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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