EGYPT
Bust of Serapis
100 CE-200 CE

Medium
calcite

Measurements
17.2 × 17.4 × 6.4 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 1939
© Public Domain

Gallery location
Not on display

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 Ms Carol Grigor 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.

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EGYPT
Bust of Serapis
100 CE-200 CE