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Egypt
Bust of Serapis 100 CE-200 CE
calcite
17.2 × 17.4 × 6.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 1939
© Public Domain
Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Egypt
Inscription
none
Accession Number
4103-D3
Department
Antiquities
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
Small bust portraying the typical facial features of the god Serapis with long curly hair and beard, and solemn, blank facial expression. A hole has been bored into the top of the head and another one at the base of the shoulder line underneath. The bust was presumably made to sit on something ledge-like by the way the back has been stepped in.