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LOT 0750
Roman Bronze Bust of Isis
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (58 grams, 60 mm).
Modelled in the round with tall diadem, hair braided and hanging in hanks to the shoulders, palla tied between the breasts; hollow to the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found North Yorkshire, UK, circa 2005.
Acquired UK, circa 2009.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
See Witt, R.E., Isis in the Ancient World, London, 1997, for a discussion of the iconography of the cult of Isis in the Greek and Roman world.
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