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Cypriot Roman pottery oil lamp
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1144070 (stock# U31)
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UK Pounds £60.00
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A small pottery oil lamp decorated on the tondo with a moulded figure of a leaping bull.
Cyprus, Roman period, c. 2nd Century AD
A chip to one side of the shoulder otherwise intact as shown
Size: 7.1 x 5 cms
Ex. collection: Jorgen Jacobsen, Bornholm, Denmark. Acquired while on UN duty with the Danish peace-keeping forces on Cyprus (Dancon X/XI) between October 1968 and October 1969. This item is part of a large collection of Cypriot antiquities acquired by Mr Jacobsen from antiques shops in ...click for details
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Roman Egyptian alabaster Serapis head
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1142961 (stock# R57)
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UK Pounds - £700.00
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A carved alabaster head from a figure of the god Serapis depicted with long flowing hair and beard.
Serapis was devised during the 3rd century BC on the orders of Ptolemy I of Egypt as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm. The god was depicted as Greek in appearance, but with Egyptian trappings, and combined iconography from a great many cults, signifying both abundance and resurrection. His cultus was spread as a matter of deliberate policy by the Ptolemaic kings, who also bu ...click for details
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