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Marble statuette of a seated deity (Jupiter-Serapis?) from Mérida

A marble statuette found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1902, representing a seated deity whose head, arms and feet are lost, tentatively identified as Jupiter-Serapis.

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Marble statuette, found in 1902 at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida).Statuette of a sitting god. Head, arms and feet are lost (Jupiter-Serapis?).

CIMRM II 787
H. 0.25. García y Bellido in BAH CXXXIX, 1956, 68 § 11 and Pl. XIII,a sees for the statue a possible connection with a sitting Proserpina found in the same place.

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