Skip to main content

Subjects (SH) Terminology Resource (Getty Research Institute)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Fine arts > Sculpture > Terms

Preferred term

Terms  

Definition

  • Sculpture in the form of a head, bust, or half-figure, supported by, as if growing out of, a gaine or tapering pilaster, and often exhibiting a phallus below; originally usually depicting the Greek god Hermes; later depicting the Roman god Terminus [AAT, alt.]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Figures, terminal
  • Herma
  • Hermae
  • Hermes, sculpture
  • Herms
  • Statues, term
  • Statues, terminal
  • Terminal figures
  • Terminal statues
  • Termini
  • Terminuses, sculpture
  • Terminus, sculpture
  • Term statutes

Notation

  • 122815

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-Q56TKCBP-Z

Download this concept: