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Double herm: Herakles and Hebe

Roman
Late Republican or Early Imperial Period

Medium/Technique Marble, fine-grained Greek, probably from the mainland
Dimensions Height: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8197
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ClassificationsSculpture

Catalogue Raisonné Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 216; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 112 (additional published references).
DescriptionThe ends of the noses of both heads are broken off, and there are other slight injuries. The right side of the face of Herakles is incrusted.
Herakles wears a wreath bound tightly around his forehead. It seems to be of laurel. Hebe is crowned with an ivy wreath, and her hair is carried to the sides, above the ears, in wavy locks.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901