Mercury, attributed to Adriaen de Vries, in the rotunda of the National Gallery of Art.

Hermes’ iconography includes ‘the caduceus (κηρύκειον) … his traveller’s hat (petasos or pilos), with or without wings, & the winged sandals which evoke his quality of speed.’ ¹

Second-favourite in the Greek pantheon &, not coincidentally, he who fathered Pan.

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¹ ‘Hermes.’ The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3^rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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