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ISIS-APHRODITE IN TERRACOTTA
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ISIS-APHRODITE IN TERRACOTTA
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
Voluntary lot
Description
ISIS-APHRODITE IN TERRACOTTA
Egyptian art, Roman period, 1st century BC–3rd century AD
Large female statuette depicting the goddess standing, nude, with her arms at her sides and wearing a large floral headdress in concentric circles, falling down on either side of her shoulders.
Height: 43.5 cm
Provenance: Former French private collection, 19th century
Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel, 22 September 2006: no. 95 (ill.)
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Christian Levett Collection, Mougins Museum of Classical Art, acquired in 2008
Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA117)
Migrating Objects, Treasures Under Influence, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France, 8 April 2022–16 October 2022
Bibliography: Jean-David Cahn AG, Kunstwerke Der Antike, 22 September 2006, lot 95
J. M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2007, vol. XVIII, no. 223
P. Clayton, “Ancient Egypt” in M. Merrony (ed.), *Mougins Museum of Classical Art*, France, 2011, p. 52, fig. 38
B. Cassin, M. Garsson and M. Moliner, “Elaborations”, Objets Migrateurs – Trésors sous influences, Musées de Marseille, 2022, pp. 103–104, fig. 59
An Egyptian terracotta figure of Isis-Aphrodite,
Roman Period, 1st century BC–3rd century AD
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