Object Image

Colorless glass ring stone

Unknown Artist

Hermes sitting on a rock with a kerykeion (herald's staff).

Adaptation of a Greek work of the 4th century B.C.

Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Ca. 1st century B.C.–3rd century A.D.

Glass

1.5 x 1.5 cm

17.194.43

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018

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