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Male Portrait Herm in the Capitoline Museum, July 2012

Male Portrait Herm in the Capitoline Museum, July 2012
Male Portrait Herm

From the Horti Maecenatiani, found in the area near the Auditorium in 1874

Pentelic marble

Inventory # MC 1135

This herm of a young athlete recalls one of Polyclitus' masterpieces, the Doryphoros (Lance-Bearer) which the Greek artist must have realized around 450-440 BC.

Text from the Capitoline Museum label.

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