Fig. 18.
Hermes (Mercury).

Hermes (Mercury). The head of Hermes is youthful, and wears a hat called a petasus (Figs. [17] and [18]), close fitting, sometimes with a broad flapping brim and adorned with two wings.

When his entire figure is represented, he is usually clad in a short cloak (chlamys), and has winged sandals (pedilia) on his feet.

Fig. 19.
Hephæstus (Vulcan).

As the messenger of the gods and the conductor of the souls of the dead, he carries the winged staff (caduceus), and sometimes, as god of trade, a purse. Hephæstus (Vulcan). This god is sometimes young and sometimes bearded. He wears a conical hat (pilos), [(Fig. 19)]. On coins of Lipara he is generally seated naked on a four-legged stool, holding a hammer in one hand and a cup (kantharos) in the other [(Fig. 20)]. The tongs and the anvil are also emblems of the worship of Hephæstus.