Friday, October 27, 2006

The divine Pez dispenser

From Trying Neaira, page 106:

"The herm was a common form of statuary in Greece. With one obvious difference, it looked like a large Pez dispenser: a stone pillar topped by a bust, usually of the god Hermes, and sporting an erect phallus."

Debra Hamel explains what Greek statuary really looked like.

Herms
Herms

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