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Categories: Architectural elements, Hermes, Ancient Greek religion, Sculpture, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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herm  herma  hermae  hermai  Herme
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A statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost WordNet 3.0
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A statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A herma, commonly in English herm, is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. Wikipedia
Type of sculpture with a head and often a torso above a plain lower section, often with male genitals Wikidata
A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. Wiktionary
Rectangular pillar. Wiktionary (translation)
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