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The identification with Hermes is based on an identification of the original bronze model as a sculpture of Hermes in the gymnasium and thermae of Zeuxippos in Constantinople, which was described in detail by Christodoros of Koptos in his ekphrasis of the gymnasium as it still remained in Late Antiquity: There was Hermes, of the golden wand.
Barre had designed the drawing and the dies for the new Hermes type, a few months prior. In 1876, [4] he provided the same work for the creation of two additional stamps. [5] [6] The strained relationship between Barre and Hulot caused delays in the production of new stamps in the early 1860s.
A 19th-century engraving of talaria. The Talaria of Mercury (Latin: tālāria) or The Winged Sandals of Hermes (Ancient Greek: πτηνοπέδῑλος, ptēnopédilos or πτερόεντα πέδιλα, pteróenta pédila) are winged sandals, a symbol of the Greek messenger god Hermes (Roman equivalent Mercury).
“We came and walked the streets all over New York, from Central Park to Union Square market. The exhibition will feel like a stroll through New York City, and you can visit little shops for ...
In 1911, a new set, with various effigies of the God Hermes, was issued. The stamps are perforated in zigzag (13 X 13 & ¼). This new set is initially, in 1911, printed by using the line-engraving technic ("taille douce"), then reissued in 1919, still in line-engraving, and then again in 1919–1923 but that time in lithography, and finally ...
The central figure of Hermes Trismegistus, who embodies both the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, emerged as a symbol of this syncretism. Hermes Trismegistus was revered as a divine sage and is credited with a vast corpus of writings known as the Hermetica, which expound on various aspects of theology, cosmology, and spiritual practice.
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