Bust of an Isiac priest

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Bust of an Isiac priest
Bust of an Isiac priest

The male head found in Herculaneum, probably in the tablinum of the Villa dei Papiri in 1752, depicts a mature man with a shaved skull and a tau-shaped scar on his left temple. These characteristics recur in a portrait type identified since the 1500s as Scipio the African, on the basis of literary testimonies that mention the wound he received during the Battle of Ticino. Today one is inclined to recognize in the group, in which there is the famous Scipione Ludovisi in green basalt, the portraits of priests of Isis who for ritual reasons bore this particular scar. A plaster cast was made of the bust of the Villa dei Papyri, exhibited along with other reproductions of the Museum of Naples in the Triennale Mostra delle Terre Italiane d'Otremare near Fuorigrotta, inaugurated on May 9, 1940 and closed just a month later due to the entry into the war of Italy. The exhibition was conceived as a Universal Thematic Exhibition and was a clear propaganda celebration of the Italian Empire and its conquests in the Mediterranean.

Bronze, with eyes of bone and stone.

Late Republican age - Claudian age.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN inv. 5634)

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