A Roman Marble Torso of Sarapis, Egypt, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D.

standing with the weight on his left leg, his right arm raised and left arm lowered, and wearing a chiton and himation draped across the hips and back and falling from his left shoulder, fragmentary locks falling over the shoulders; no restorations.

Cairo art market, prior to 1936
French private collection, Paris, acquired between 1965-1970

Paul Graindor, Bustes et statues-portraits d’Égypte romaine, Cairo, [1936], p. 95f., no. 43, pl. 37
Wilhelm Hornbostel, Sarapis, Leiden, 1973, p. 309, note 1, fig. 326
G. J. F. Kater-Sibbes, Preliminary Catalogue of Sarapis Monuments, Leiden, 1973, p. 33, no. 192
V. Tran Tam Tinh, Sérapis debout, Leiden, 1983, p. 165, no. IVA2, fig. 119

Fragmentary as shown. No restorations. Proper right arm separately carved: rectangular mortise on proper right shoulder. Drapery with small areas of abrasions in various spots both in front and back. Surface slightly dirty.
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The lower left arm and hand, left foot, half of the plinth, and the support carved in relief with a figure of Harpocrates were still preserved when the statue appeared on the Egyptian art market in the 1930s.