Ca. 100-200 AD A beautiful bronze statuette of the Roman god Mercury, the god of shopkeepers, merchants, and travellers, who is commonly identified with the Greek Hermes, the fleet-footed messenger of the Olympian gods. Although headless, this statuette has been finely modelled and the details are striking. Hermes is standing atop a socle with the weight on his left leg and his right leg drawn back. He is holding a caduceus in his left hand and wearing chlamys, covering his shoulders.For similar, see:Cecil H. Smith and C. Amy Hutton, Catalogue of the Antiquities (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook, Esquire., London, 1908, p. 70, no. 21, pl. XXVI. Size: L:115mm / W:51mm ; 175g Provenance: Formerly in Private UK collection; previously from an old Oxford collection formed in the 1990s.