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Two-faced herma of Jupiter Amon
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Two-faced herma of Jupiter Amon

White marble, early 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Gilded Cupids
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 20364

This two-faced herma portrays the god Amon, protector of Thebes, distinguished by the great curved horns of the ram, the animal sacred to him.