Fayoum / figurine with caduceus and bottle / Bronze
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.3104
- Object Name
- figurine with caduceus and bottle
- Lot
- Askren, David
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Figurines
- Materials
- Bronze
- Length
- [DEPTH] 0.5 cm;
- Width
- 4.2 cm;
- Height
- 4.9 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;22.2g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Standing figure of Hermes holds a large caduceus, or herald’s staff in left arm and grasps the top of a money pouch in his right hand. Wings on head. Perhaps originally had winged heels or sandals. Projection rises from center of Hermes’ head, perhaps a lotus petal or ibis-plume. Figure wears a chlamys draped over both shoulders. Slender body flatly executed. Right arm mended. Both legs missing below knees.
- Earliest Date
- 100
- Latest Date
- 199
- Verbatim Date
- 2nd C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Fayoum
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Condition Notes
- Bronze disease treatment in 1972.
- Exhibition Title
- The Gods of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period
- Caught Looking: Exhibiting the Kelsey
- Exhibition Curator
- Gazda, Elaine
- Thomas, Thelma K.
- Wilfong, Terry
- Publication Title
- The Gods of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period
- Publication Author
- Haeckl, A.E.; Spelman, K.C.
- Publication Year
- 1977
- Class Title
- Greek Religion
- Greek Mythology
- Greek Mythology (W2018)
- Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) (F2018)
- Identity and Myth in Greece and Rome (W2019)
- Searchers and Caesars: Place, Peril, and Identity in Classical Antiquity (W2019)
- Greek Mythology (W2019)
- Sacred Places (W2019)
- Rome (W2019)
- Searchers and Caesars: Place, Peril, and Identity in Classical Antiquity (F2019)
- The Rise and Fall of Mediterranean Civilizations (F2023)
- Class Instructor
- Scodel, Ruth
- Verhoogt, Arthur
- Forsdyke, Sara
- Ness, Shannon
- Wright, Parrish
- Soter, Gina
- Gruber, Christiane
- Bonnell-Freidin, Anna
- Galaty, Michael
- Class Department
- Classics
- CLCIV
- Great Books
- HISTORY
- HISTART
- ANTHRARC
- Class Number
- 466
- 385
- 191
- 195.003
- 120.002
- 205.001
- 201
- 120.001
- 287
- Class Year
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2023
- Class Semester
- Winter
- Fall
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.3104
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3104/dsc_6590.jpg
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"Fayoum; figurine with caduceus and bottle; Bronze." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3104/dsc_6590.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
