Statue in Oriental dress from Leptis Magna

TNMM 851 ↔ CIMRM 108 & 109

Statue (H. 2.03) in red, local limestone. Discovered at Leptis Magna in the Forum Vetus.

Caputo in Archeologia Classica I, 1949, 205ff and PI. LVI, 1.

Standing person in Eastern attire; not cross-legged. The head got lost, but on the shoulders there are still remnants of the ribbons of a Phrygian cap. The foremost part of the arms got lost; it is, however, clear that he raised the r. arm whereas the other arm was hanging down.

On the base an inscription:

CIMRM 109

L.H.0.032.

Aristius Antiochus fec(it).