Hermes Mercury leaning against a Hermaic Stele - Messenger of Olympian Gods - marble base - pure bronze statue

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Material: Pure Bronze
Height: 43 cm - 16,93 inches
Width: 25 cm - 9,85 inches
Length: 14 cm - 5,51 inches
Weight: 7350 g

Hermes was the ancient Greek god of trade, wealth, luck, fertility, animal husbandry, sleep, language, thieves, and travel. One of the cleverest and most mischievous of the Olympian gods, he was the patron of shepherds, invented the lyre, and was, above all, the herald and messenger of Mt. Olympus so that he came to symbolise the crossing of boundaries in his role as a guide between the two realms of gods and humanity. To the Romans, the god was known as Mercury.
Hermaic steles featured a bust of a specific deity above a plain squared lower section, and it was usually placed at the entrances of particular public spaces.