A Roman Bronze Figure of Isis-Aphrodite, circa 2nd Century A.D.

standing on a spool-shaped base with her weight on the left leg, and wearing a diaphanous chiton leaving her left shoulder bare and himation draped around the lower part of her body, held in her right hand, and falling in long cascading folds downs to her feet, her head turned to the left, her centrally parted wavy hair surmounted by the vulture headdress and a modius-like crown of uraei supporting the horned sun-disk and feathers flanked by ears of grain.

Spink & Son, Ltd., London
Dr. Charles Sheard (1883-1963), Rochester, Minnesota, acquired from the above in the Fall of 1937
Christie's, New York, December 9th, 2008, no. 135, illus.

Small chip off lower edge of base, tips of proper left fingers chipped, separately-cast right arm missing, tops of both plumes restored, surface somewhat worn.
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For a closely related example on a larger scale (from Amrit in ancient Syria, now in the Louvre, inv. no. Br 4415) see A. de Ridder, Collection de Clercq. Catalogue méthodique et raisonné, vol. III, Paris, 1888, pl. 70 [40] (S. Reinach, Répertoire de la sculpture grecque et romaine, vol. IV, 2nd, ed., Paris, 1913, p. 253, no. 10).