Name:	Hermes Seated on a Rock
Picture:
Description:	Bronze Roman copy of Greek original. From Herculaneum. Naples Archaeological Museum. H. 1.05m. Youthful Hermes seated on a rock, right leg stretched before him, left leg tucked close to the stone. He wears winged sandals, apart from which he is naked. His left arm rests on his left thigh, and he supports his upper body weight with his right hand resting on the rock. The torso is leaning slightly forwards. Hermes looks pensive and restless.
Date:	c. 250 B.C.
Discussion:	This unsettled, twisting pose makes it appear as though Hermes is about to fly away. The body seems Lysippan, although the head is more in the style of late Republican or early Imperial Rome. Pollitt suggests that it is a pastiche of Hermes in the tradition of Delian 'pseudo-athletic' sculptures (p. 58). See Pollitt 1986: 57-8, fig. 52.