RB004
Roman bronze statuette of a Roman Emperor as Helios-Alexander
3rd century AD.
Height: 6.92 cm. (2 3/4 in.)
Very fine. Missing right arm and leg. Extremely beautiful turquoise-blue and green patina. Mounted.
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The Emperor is standing radiated and cuirassed, with a mantle over his left shoulder, holding a glob in his left hand, his right arm raised to hold a scepter. The rayed diadem (-a crown of solar rays), is the attribute of the Sun God - Helios. Helios standing in the pose of Alexander the Great is Helios-Alexander (as the sculpture of Lysippos, of Helios in the sun chariot in Rhodes, 4th century BC).
The Roman Emperor is most probably Elagabalus (-218-222 AD), who was a priest of the Sun God in Syria, and as an Emperor imposed his cult upon the Roman Empire.
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