Inv. n°: MMoCA784

Roman Bronze Figure of Isis-Aphrodite

Standing on a spool-shaped base with her weight on the left leg. Wearing a diaphanous chiton leaving her left shoulder bare and himation draped around the lower part of her body, held in her right hand, and falling in long cascading folds down to her feet. Her head turned to the left; her centrally parted wavy hair surmounted by the vulture headdress and a crown of uraei supporting the horned sun disk and feathers flanked by ears of grain.

h. 25.1 cm (with base)

Roman, c. 2nd century AD

Bronze

Provenance

  • Spink & Son, Ltd., London
  • Ex collection of Dr. Charles Sheard (1883-1963), Rochester, Minnesota, acquired from the above in the Fall of 1937
  • Christie's, Antiquities - Sale 2056, New York, 9th December 2008, no. 135
  • Sotheby's, Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities - Sale N08810, New York, 8th December 2011, lot 19

Publications

  • Sotheby's, Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities - Sale N08810, New York, 8th December 2011, lot 19

Exhibitions

  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2012

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