A Marble Head of Isis-Io, Roman Imperial, circa late 2nd Century A.D.

turned to her left, with parted lips, almond-shaped eyes with incised irises and dotted pupils, and diminutive horns, her finely-drilled wavy hair parted in the center, a small circular mortise with remains of an iron tenon on top of the head for attachment of the missing crown, the back carved flat.

French private collection, Paris, acquired in the 1940s

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For a head of Isis-Io of comparable scale, with similar eye markings, and dated to the late Antonine period, see B. Borg, H. v. Hesberg, and A. Linfert, Die antiken Skulpturen in Castle Howard (Monumenta Artis Romanae, vol. 31), Wiesbaden, 2005, p. 64, no. 24, pl. 22, 3-4 (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/3823).