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237, Lot: 232. Estimate $150.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 29.85 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 146/7). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Isis seated right, suckling the child Horus (Harpocrates); L ΔЄKATOV (date) around. Köln 1548; Dattari (Savio) 2649; K&G 35.357. Near VF, rough brown surfaces.


From Collection CR.

Following Alexander’s conquest of Egypt, the cult of Isis spread across the Mediterranean, with its popularity reaching its zenith in the Roman period, when the “goddess of a thousand names” became one of the Mediterranean’s principle deities. It is generally assumed that the iconography of Isis nursing Harpocrates influenced Christian representations of the Madonna and Child, particularly the Virgo lactans type popular in Medieval Europe.