Graeco-Roman art.

excellent preservation. On the back of the neck is a lump of raw
material (as is the case e.g. with the Hermes statue in the Bardo
Museum at Tunis, from Carthage, Musee Alaoui II p. 46 No. 940 and
our statue No 544). Acquired 1911 in Rome.
This long form of bust, reaching to below the navel, places
the copy to the 2nd cent. A. D. (see Nos. 706, 707, 731, 732,
749). The arms are broken off, but in the stump of the right
arm is an iron clamp, so that originally they seem to have
been executed in full with attributes — purse and Hermes
staff — in the hands. It is the work of a copyist, cursory
but not without grace.
Our Hermes has wings attached to the narrow bandeau
and is wearing a chlamys with a large round buckle over
the left shoulder. We know the type from many replicas, of
which a marble Hermes from Anticythera and the so-called
“Mercure Richelieu” in the Louvre are the most famous. The
head of our bust is of ordinary Praxitelean character and
does not conform stylistically to the heads of the type (Lip-
pold, Arch. Jahrb. XXVI 1911 pp. 271 seqq. and 279). Of the
Hermes figure we have a replica with an unrelated head
in No. 272.
Tilleeg til Billedtavler pl. V. Arndt-Amelung 4295-96 (Brendel).
273. (I. N. 572). Bust with head of “the sandal-tying Hermes". M.
H. 0.56 (without the foot), of the head alone 0.26. The foot of the
bust modern, the bust with the cornucopia is of the Flavian time
and doubtless originally associated with an imperial portrait. The
neck seems to be antique, but it belongs to neither the bust nor the
head, to which it is joined at a cut surface. The nose, middle of the
upper lip, parts of the ear (evidently crude work by an inferior sculp-
tor), and parts of the hair are restored in marble. The patina is an
artificial oil patina, no doubt laid on to make up for the polishing.
The entire bust stood in the Villa Borghese and was there called
“Il Genio del popolo Romano”.
The head belongs to a famous statue, the Sandal-Tyer (see
No. 273 a). The best copy of the head is the so-called Fagan
head in the British Museum (Marbles and Bronzes in Brit.
Mus. pl. 25). Its animation also places the Glyptotek head
on a very high level.
Billedtavler p. XIX. N. C. G. 12 '-129 (with bibliography). Franklin P. John-
son: Lysippos p. 170 note 29.

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