A ROMAN BRONZE ISIS-APHRODITE
A ROMAN BRONZE ISIS-APHRODITE

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN BRONZE ISIS-APHRODITE
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The goddess depicted nude, standing with weight on right leg, left leg bent at the knee, her head turned to the left, wearing a dove headdress with the bird head alert above, stippled wings raised, her hair gathered in a chignon at the nape of her neck, a thick double layered fringe over her forehead, large openwork ringlets falling onto each shoulder, with large articulated almond-shaped eyes
13¼ in. (33.5 cm.) high
來源
Anonymous sale; M. Jean Roudillon, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 March 1988, lot 15.

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Georgina Aitken
Georgina Aitken

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The square mortise at the top of her head would suggest another part of a now missing larger headdress - probably a uraeus crown surmounted with a plumed sun-disc and cows horns representing Isis-Aphrodite.

The Louvre has a near-identical statue, illustrated in S. Reinach, Repertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, Paris, 1897, p. 359, no. 3, see also p. 360 nos 6 and 9. For a similar statue in the British Museum (no. 1912,0420.1) with the double layered fringe and a find spot in the Eastern Roman Empire, cf. C. Aug and P. L. de Bellefonds, 'Eros', Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologicae Classicae III, Zurich und München, 1986, p. 637, nos 352a and 352b, and LIMC no. 252e for a bronze statue with a similar dove headdress in the British Museum (no. ME 134875) where she is associated with Astarte, an ancient fertility goddess widely worshipped in Syria and Palestine. See also no. 107 in 'Aphrodite (In Peripheria Orientali)', Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologicae Classicae II, Zurich und München, 1986, for a bronze statue from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, with armlets where separately-made arms were attached and corkscrew curls on the shoulders.

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