A Marble Head of Isis, Eastern Mediterranean, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.

turned slightly to her right, her gentle face with parted lips and smooth brow, the centrally parted wavy hair falling in twin corkscrew curls over the ears, bound in ears of grain knotted in front, and surmounted by a crown composed of horns, sun-disk, and fragmentary plumes; on a 19th century marble socle.

Scottish private collection, Ayrshire, said to have been found in Antioch in 1837 (according to the engraved inscription on the socle)
by descent in the family until 2012

As shown, chips and abrasions overall with large loss to forehead and hair above proper left eye, visible in catalogue photo, top of crown fragmentary, back roughly worked.
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For a stylistically related head of Isis with separately-made crown see Sotheby's, New York, June 6th, 2006, no. 30.