1st-2nd century AD. A group of votive terracotta figuresprising: the bt of the god Serapis, depicted bearded as Ze and Hades, with a bhel of wheat on his head; a bt of Isis, with spiral curls on the forehead and the Hathoric crown; a bt of the divine child Harpocrates, with the typical fingertip jt below the lips of his mouth, his head covered by his Egyptian Royal Crown; part of a statuette of a female worper in orans pose, the right hand raised in prayer, the body covered by a folded cloak and the oval face framed by a rich Graeco-Roman coiffure; each mounted on a ctom-made display stand. Cf. Savvopoulos, K., 'Popular divine imagery in Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria. The terracotta figurines collection of the Patriarchal Sacristy in Alexandria' in The Annual of the British School at Athens 2019, pp.1-52, figs.14,15,39,42; for the iconography of Serapis see Milleker, E.J., ‘Three Heads of Sarapis from Corinth’ in Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, vol.54, no.2, Apr.-Jun., 1985, pp.121-135. 280 grams total, 80-87mm high (405 grams total, 10-10.5cm including stands) (3 - 3 1/2 (4 - 4 1/4)"). North London gentleman, in storage since the 1970s. Property of a West London gentleman. These statuettes are all votive pieces linked to the cult of Egyptian deities, like Serapis, Isis and Harpokrates, inside the Roman Empire, and are probably a product of an Alexandrian workshop. Harpokrates, son of Sarapis and Isis, the deity-symbol of rebirth and fertility, was perhaps the most popular deity to be represented in terracotta figures. Serapis was known to the Greek and Roman world already in the 3rd century BC in Alexandria, where Ptolemy I built a Serapeum in honour of the god. The name of the god is considered to beposed from the names Osiris and Apis-the bull and means 'Osiris the bull' since after his death he became the ruler of the Outer world, while it was also believed that Osiris lived in the world through Apis. [4, No Reserve]