A Roman Marble Torso of Sarapis, Egypt, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D.
standing with the weight on his left leg, his right arm raised and left arm lowered, and wearing a chiton and himation draped across the hips and back and falling from his left shoulder, fragmentary locks falling over the shoulders; no restorations.
Height 60 cm.
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Cairo art market, prior to 1936
French private collection, Paris, acquired between 1965-1970
Paul Graindor, Bustes et statues-portraits d’Égypte romaine, Cairo, [1936], p. 95f., no. 43, pl. 37
Wilhelm Hornbostel, Sarapis, Leiden, 1973, p. 309, note 1, fig. 326
G. J. F. Kater-Sibbes, Preliminary Catalogue of Sarapis Monuments, Leiden, 1973, p. 33, no. 192
V. Tran Tam Tinh, Sérapis debout, Leiden, 1983, p. 165, no. IVA2, fig. 119