High Clerk in the Cult of Serapis
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High Clerk in the Cult of Serapis
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Published 2018-04-11T11:58:59+00:00
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Description
The marble head portrayes a neokoros - a high ranking clerk in the cult of the Greek-Egyptian god Serapis, as signified by the circlet with the seven-beam disc of the sun on it in the portrayed's hair. The sculpture was presumably placed within a sanctuary of Serapis in Egypt.
Technical Information
| Date published | 11/04/2018 |
| Complexity | Easy |
More Information
| Title | High Clerk in the Cult of Serapis |
| Date | Around 230-240 AD |
| Accession | Sk 1810 |
| Medium | Marble |
| Credit | Acquired in 1928 in Egypt |
| Record | https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/altes-museum/home.html |
| Place | Altes Museum |
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