Abstract

The article presents an hitherto unpublished head, which apparently constituted a part of the statue of the god Serapis. Originally it belonged to the collection of antiquities gathered at the beginning of the Twentieth century by the Russian aristocrat Platon von Ustinow. The head is executed in white marble and is 0.270m high, 0.199m wide, the height of the face is 0.122m, and its width 0.088m. It could constitute either a part of a bichrome statue or, equally well, could be placed on a marble torso. As its lieu de provenance the Mount Ephraim is given, adding thus an important element towards the long list of findings of quality marble sculpture fragments of this Alexandrian deity of cosmopolitan character in the eastern Mediterranean, recently summed up by T.M. Weber.