Cast Gallery catalogue number: C040

Head of Hermes of Polykleitos.

• Plaster cast: Height: 43 cm.
• Copy of a head from a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is from Piedimonte di Sessa near Minturnae.
  • is marble version of an original bronze by Polykleitos of Argos, about 440 BC.
  • is now in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. 98.641.