A ROMAN BASALT RELIEF

HAURAN, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN BASALT RELIEF
HAURAN, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
With a draped bust of the sun god Helios, depicted frontally, his oval face framed by a radiate nimbus overlapped by nine evenly-spaced wavy pointed locks, his open mouth downturned at the corners, his large eyes with articulated irises and pupils
13½ in. (34.2 cm.) long

來源

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 1993, lot 16.
Ambassador and Mrs. William Eagleton.

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Please note revised provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 1993, lot 16.
Ambassador and Mrs. William Eagleton.

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For depictions of the sun god similarly portrayed with a radiate nimbus see the limestone busts from Petra, nos. 169 and 181 in Markoe, Petra Rediscovered, and the limestone relief from Palmyra (the deity locally identified as Malakbel), no. 35 in Colledge, The Art of Palmyra.