Double Herm of Aristophanes and Menander

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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).

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SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst
The Statens Museum for Kunst (National Art Museum of Denmark) was founded in 1849 when the Danish royal collections became property of the people. Today we at SMK want to contribute to building a more creative and reflective society that values its history and cherishes difference.

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