A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ISIS-FORTUNA, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
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July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
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10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ISIS-FORTUNA, CIRCA 1ST CENTU🔜RY A.D.
advancing with the weight on her left leg and formerly holding a rudder in her right hand🌱 and a cornucopia cradled in her left arm, and wearing high-soled sandals, long chiton, fringed shawl knotted above her right breast, and himation falling from her left shoulder, her eyes wit꧂h indented pupils, her centrally parted wavy hair tied in a chignon, falling in corkscrew curls over her shoulders, and surmounted by a crescentic diadem and high cylindrical modius.
Height 18.3 cm.
Sotheby’s, London, De☂cember 14th, 199✃5, no. 116, illus.
For an almost identical example see Sotheby’s, New York, December 17th, 1996, no. 77; for related examples cf. Ägyptisches Museum Berlin, 1967, no. 1002, and A. de Franciscis, Il Museo Nazionale di Napoli, 1963, fig. 86.