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LOT 133 Roman Terracotta Head Collection

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2nd century AD. A group of votive terracotta figuresprising: the head of god Serapis, depicted bearded as Ze, with a bhel of wheat (kalathos) on his head; a head of Isis, with curls on the forehead and the Hathoric crown (Basileion); a head of the goddess Athena (Minerva) with a pseudo-Corinthian helmet on the head; a head of a female deity (Demeter, Aphrodite, Hera?) with two curls of hair tied in a bow on her forehead and the head crowned by a crown (stephane); three female heads with circular earrings and Graeco-Egyptian coiffures; a head of the god Harpokrates, with the typical fingertip jt below the lips of his mouth (the point of the finger still visible), long locks and Greek diadem; each mounted on a ctom-made display stand. See 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.14,15,30,39,41-42; 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. 170 grams total, 32-59mm high (240 grams total, 54-74mm including stands) (1 1/4 - 2 1/4 (2 - 3)"). North London gentleman, in storage since the 1970s. Property of a West London gentleman. The heads originally belonged to votive statuettes produced in Alexandrian workshops and exported for the cult of Egyptian gods and divinities in the Mediterranean. [8, No Reserve]

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