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A Roman marble bust of Isis-Alexandria

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28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
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A Roman marble bust of Isis-Alexandria
Circa 1st Century B.C.
The goddess with centrally-parted wavy hair, her long 'Libyan' curls falling onto her shoulders, wearing a flat, hat-like crown surmounted by a sun disc with uraeus between cow's horns, a fringed mantle tied between her breasts in a 'knot of Isis', with traces of red pigment, 10.7cm high

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Provenance:
Mr A. collection, Paris, acquired prior to 1999.

Published:
C.-G. Schwentzel, Images d'Alexandre et des Ptolémées, Paris, 1999, p.152-153, no. 54.
ibid., 'Cinq nouvelles têtes d'Isis ou de reines lagides', Cripel, vol. 20, Lille, 1999, p. 168, no. 3, pl. 10 C-D.

The suggestion that Isis is here also a personification of Alexandria follows Diez's identification of the flat crown as a kausia, a Macedonian hat, which could refer to Alexander, the founder of the city (see E. Diez, 'Isis-Alexandria auf dem großen Fries von Ephesos', in Alessandria e il mondo ellenistico-romano. Studi in onore di Achille Adriani, Rome, 1983, p. 155-162).

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