Double Herm of Aristophanes and Menander
Double Herm of Aristophanes and Menander
3D
Published 2019-10-14T12:52:28+00:00
A herm is a (stone) rectangular-sectioned pillar topped with a head. Their origins were used as waymarkers for travellers and the topped portraits were reserved for depictions of gods; later on they were used as portrait busts, as found in this janiform example. Janiform busts borrow their name from Janus, the Roman god of doorways and transitions, who was often portrated with two heads.
Aristophanes (460 - 380 BC) was the most famous writer of Old Comedy plays in ancient Greece. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. Menanger was also a dramatist, and best-known representative of Athenian comedies.
(Scanned by Merete Sanderhoff of the Statens Museum for Kunst).
| Date published | 14/10/2019 |
| Complexity | Easy |
| Title | Double Herm of Aristophanes and Menander |
| Date | 4th Century BC (?) |
| Accession | KAS 341 |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Credit | Original: Academisches Kunstmuseum (ORIG2539) |
| Record | https://collection.smk.dk/#/detail/KAS341 |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst |
