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Serapis
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This creature of marble and stucco comes from the collection Rubensohn and was found in Alexandria.
Stylistically, the play is dated about 200 BC.
The head resembles a mask, because the back is cut off smoothly and covered with stucco. The like neck indicates that this creature was never connected to a body.
In the core, the head is made of marble. On the other hand, hair, ripe and beard are placed in stucco.
The pupil zone is rested - probably for the missing painting. The eye outlines, as shown by the preserved color remnants, were painted red.
The place of finding, the ripe facial features and the twisted beard curls suggest that it is the representation of the god Serapis.
Serapis is in a way an “invention” of Ptolemy I. In it ancient Egyptian beliefs combine with the form of the Greek fatherhood Zeus and Hoders.
The cult image of the enthroned Serapis, consecrated for the establishment of the cult in Alexandria, may have served as a model for this pottery shown here. (Archaeological Museum of the EMU Münster)
Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster
Title: Serapis
Description:
This creature of marble and stucco comes from the collection Rubensohn and was found in Alexandria.
Stylistically, the play is dated about 200 BC.
The head resembles a mask, because the back is cut off smoothly and covered with stucco.
The like neck indicates that this creature was never connected to a body.
In the core, the head is made of marble.
On the other hand, hair, ripe and beard are placed in stucco.
The pupil zone is rested - probably for the missing painting.
The eye outlines, as shown by the preserved color remnants, were painted red.
The place of finding, the ripe facial features and the twisted beard curls suggest that it is the representation of the god Serapis.
Serapis is in a way an “invention” of Ptolemy I.
In it ancient Egyptian beliefs combine with the form of the Greek fatherhood Zeus and Hoders.
The cult image of the enthroned Serapis, consecrated for the establishment of the cult in Alexandria, may have served as a model for this pottery shown here.
(Archaeological Museum of the EMU Münster).
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