BUSTE DU DIEU ZEUS SERAPIS, ALBTRE, ART ROMAIN, CIRCA IER-IIE S. AP. J.-C.
BUSTE DU DIEU ZEUS SERAPIS, ALBTRE, ART ROMAIN, CIRCA IER-IIE S. AP. J.-C.
A ROMAN ALABASTER BUST OF ZEUS SERAPIS, CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D., the god with full beard and lidded almond-shaped eyes, wearing a fillet atop his luxuriant wavy hair, a himation draped around the shoulders, the modius now missing, 24.5cm high, 18cm wide, 12cm deep
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Anonymous sale; Collin du Bocage, Paris, 11 June 2014, lot 21.
Sculptures of Serapis, like the above, are a type modelled after the monumental cult statue in Alexandria created by Bryaxis around the late 4th- early 3rd Century B.C., showing Serapis seated on a throne holding a sceptre with Cerberus at his feet. Over time Serapis was worshipped and celebrated as a sun god, then a god of the underworld, and later as a god of healing and fertility. It is believed that Ptolemy I brought the deity to Egypt and his cult later spread throughout the Roman Empire. For a similar depiction of Serapis and discussion of the Bryaxis type, see A. Stewart, Greek Sculpture: An Exploration, New Haven and London, 1990, vol.II, no.633.
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BUSTE DU DIEU ZEUS SERAPIS, ALBTRE, ART ROMAIN, CIRCA IER-IIE S. AP. J.-C.
A ROMAN ALABASTER BUST OF ZEUS SERAPIS, CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D., the god with full beard and lidded almond-shaped eyes, wearing a fillet atop his luxuriant wavy hair, a himation draped around the shoulders, the modius now missing, 24.5cm high, 18cm wide, 12cm deep
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Collin du Bocage, Paris, 11 June 2014, lot 21.
Sculptures of Serapis, like the above, are a type modelled after the monumental cult statue in Alexandria created by Bryaxis around the late 4th- early 3rd Century B.C., showing Serapis seated on a throne holding a sceptre with Cerberus at his feet. Over time Serapis was worshipped and celebrated as a sun god, then a god of the underworld, and later as a god of healing and fertility. It is believed that Ptolemy I brought the deity to Egypt and his cult later spread throughout the Roman Empire. For a similar depiction of Serapis and discussion of the Bryaxis type, see A. Stewart, Greek Sculpture: An Exploration, New Haven and London, 1990, vol.II, no.633.
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