Marcellus as Hermes Logios (reduced)

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This reduced in size cast derives from the original marble sculpture housed at The Louvre (MR 315). Formerly considered to represent Germanicus it is now agreed that the work depicts Marcellus the Younger, a Roman consul and nephew of Augustus. The statue depicts him as an orator in the pose of the Hermes Logios, the god of eloquence. It was executed two years after Marcellus' death, possibly on his uncle's personal order as a funerary monument. The Hermes Logios (also formerly known as Mercury the Orator) is a Hellenistic sculpture of the god Hermes in his form of a psychopompus, a conveyor or conductor of souls in (or through) the underworld. The tortoise, on which the Athenian sculptor Cleomenes has signed his work, recalls the invention of the lyre (Hermes made the lyre from a tortoise shell). ΚΛΕΟΜΕΝΗΣΚΛΕΟΜΕΝΟΥΣΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΣΕΠΟΙΗΣΕΝ "Cleomenes, son of Cleomenes from Athens"

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The collection consists of 12,000 objects and specimens that tell the story of 300 years of anatomical teaching at the University of Edinburgh. About one third of the museum’s collection is related to pathology, anatomy and zoology. This includes models, skeletal remains, dried and fluid preserved specimens. The rest of the collections include phrenology, pharmacology, ethnography, forensics and anatomical and other artworks. The museum displays a number of unique objects including the skull of George Buchanan (tutor to James VI), a dissected body with the lymphatic system injected with mercury (1788) and the skeleton of notorious murderer William Burke (1829). In 2016 the Anatomical Museum was awarded ‘Accredited’ status by Museums Galleries Scotland.

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