Basalt bust of the god Serapis
Period
Hellenistic period, 3rd-2nd century B.C.
Dimension
17.6 cm high (front), 13 cm high (back)
Provenance
Collection Kurt Meissner (1909-2004), Zurich, acquired in 1954
Publications
M. Steinhart
Neue Götter, alter Glaube – Von allegorischen Schöpfungen und religiösen Importen, in: Florian Knauss (ed.), Die Unsterblichen – Götter Griechenlands, Munich 2012, 281ff., ill. 19.14.
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