Etruscan - smiling Hermes or Turms 6th C. BCE

"Born with the dawning, at mid-day he played on the lyre, and in the evening he stole the cattle of far-shooting Apollo on the fourth day of the month; for on that day queenly Maia bare him."

-Hymn 4 to Hermes, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Ed.

Etruscan - smiling Hermes or Turms 6th C. BCE. Etruscan terra cotta statue from the sanctuary of Portonaccio in Veji. Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia

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Quote:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D4