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| Item Number: |
1VWEO |
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| Category: |
Egyptian |
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| Period: |
Greco-Roman |
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| Date: |
c. Ptolemaic-Roman, 1st Century B.C.-A.D. |
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| Material: |
Terra Cotta |
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| Height: |
2 1/4" (5.8cm) |
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| Display Stand: |
Mounted |
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| Status: |
Sold |
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| Description: |
Of reddish clay, depicting a well modeled head of a bull from a statuette, with bulging eyes, large pointed ears and horns. Possibly from the Alexandrian workshop.
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| Provenance: |
with Archaeologia Gallery (1972-1983)
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| Condition: |
Fragmented, Fragment from a votive statuette. A well modeled example.
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| Keywords: |
Apis: Sacred bull who served as the Ba or herald of the god Ptah. His sanctuary was located near the temple of Ptah at Memphis. Unlike other sacred animals the Apis bull was always a single individual animal, selected for his particular markings. At the death of each Apis bulls, there was national mourning, and the embalmed corpse was taken along the sacred way from Memphis to Saqqara, for burial in a granite sarcophagus in the underground catacombs known as the Serapeum.
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