A Roman Marble Head of Sarapis, circa 2nd Century A.D.

based on the monumental cult statue in Alexandria created by Bryaxis in the late 4th Century B.C, the unarticulated tenon-like neck with deep rounded channel in front, his face with massive symmetrically-arranged unruly beard of voluted curls and deep-set eyes under faceted brows, his long wavy hair falling over the forehead in five equidistant curls (two surviving) and flowing down the sides, the top of the head carved flat for addition of the modius, the back roughly worked; no restorations.

the sculptor Victor Rousseau (1865-1954), Vorst, Belgium, acquired in Rome in the 1890s

Galerie Chenel, Paris, Visage, 2013

As described and shown, two small fragments repaired at back of neck, "French nicotine patina" overall.
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For the written sources regarding the cult statue see S. Kansteiner, et al., eds., Der Neue Overbeck, vol. 3, 2014, pp. 492ff., no. 6.