LOT 132 Roman Terracotta Head Collection
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1st century BC-2nd century AD. A group of votive terracotta figure headsprising: three female heads of orantes with circular earrings and Graeco-Egyptian coiffures, the hair arranged in a series of thick plokamoi, bound together at the back of the neck; two heads of Harpokrates, the divine child, with shaved head exhibiting the Egyptian royal braid at the right side of the skull and a low Egyptian headgear; a grotesque male portrait, representing a theatre mask, the eyebrows depicted frowning, the eyes incised in the middle to represent the pupils, wide nose, the mouth rendered with thick lips; 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, fig.16, 20, 24, 34, 39, 41, 42, 49, 50, 51. 185 grams total, 41-56mm high (240 grams total, 57-68mm including stands) (1 1/2 - 2 1/4 (2 1/4 - 2 1/2)"). North London gentleman, in storage since the 1970s. Property of a West London gentleman. These heads are all votive pieces linked to the cult of Egyptian deities inside the Roman Empire, and are probably a product of a workshop in Alexandria. [6, No Reserve]
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