Cast Gallery catalogue number: C047

Portrait head of Perikles from a herm.

• Plaster cast: Height: 58cm.
• Copy of the head of a marble herm.
• The head:
  • is a version of the head of an original bronze made by Kresilas in about 425 BC.
• The herm:
  • was found in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1781.
  • is now in London, British Museum, 549.