Serapis head from Mérida

Marble head (H. 0.30), found in 1902. Mus. Merida, Inv. No. 84.

Paris in RA XXIV, 1914, II No. II and fig. 9; Leite de Vasconcellos, Religoes, III, fig. 154; Melida in BAH 1914, 445 No. I and PI. II; Cat. Badajoz, No. 1081; Liailez, Mer., 187 No. 84 and fig. 65; Pidal, Hist. Esp. II 437 and fig. 242; Garcia y Bellido, Culto, fig. 20. See fig. 215.

Head of Serapis with long, wavy hair and beard. Round the hair a fillet. The head is flat on top and therefore must have carried a modius.



Head of Serapis in white marble. Plenty of hair and beard with disorderly curls. On the top of

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