Inv. Scu 386

The herm features a bearded god, perhaps Hermes or Dionysos, and is a replica of an exemplar provided with a modern inscription today displayed in the Gallery of Palazzo Nuovo (Scu 288); the head is surmounted by a diadem and wreathed by a band with two flaps falling on the shoulders (tainia); the hair is arranged in two rows of curls, the long beard consists in cork-screw locks.

The herm, datable to the mid antoninian period (160-180 AD), appears to derive from an archaistic prototype.

Formerly in the collection of cardinal Alessandro Albani
, the herm was acquired for the Capitoline Museum in 1733.