Head of Serapis

1st century CE (Roman Imperial)

39.5 cm 54.5 cm 38.5 cm

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The size of this head and the abbreviated treatment of the back and sides indicate that it was part of a colossal statue, perhaps shown seated, that was meant to be viewed frontally. He has wide, elliptical shape eyes and a mustache and beard of tight curls that surround his p...

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown][said to be from Baliana, Upper Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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