A herm used as support for the left arm of la large statue carrying a child.
Upper half of the child is missing as well as the entire statue, whose left arm rests on the head of the herm. The base of ... 2nd c. A.D ... Cf. the description of the Herm of Alkamenes in Richter (1929) , Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, p. 236, fig. 628 (p. 182, fig. 673 in the 4th edition 1970): "The style of the herm is evidently archaistic, the formal treatment of the hair and beard being conditioned by its architectonic character, for the rendering of the eyes places it in the second half of the fifth century." ... For the use of a herm as a support, cf. the Madrid Hermes in Reinach (1910), Repertoire IV, p. 98.
