Base Inscription: You will recognise the fine statue by Alkamenes, the Hermes Before-the-Gates. Pergamios gave it.

and Know thyself.

version of Alkamenes' original Hermes Propylaios (Hermes Before-the-Gates) was set up on the Athens Acropolis in about 430 BC.

Found at Pergamon in 1903.

Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, 527.

Hermes, Alkamenes,


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