Serapis Portrait Bust, Ancient Greco-Egyptian Sculpture with Kalathos for a Library or Study

Add a Greco-Egyptian portrait to a library, study or collection of ancient art with this bust of Serapis. Its sculpted curls, divided beard, draped cloak and tall floral kalathos follow the historic portrait recorded in the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria.

The decorative headdress and integral round foot give this bust a distinctive silhouette. A thoughtful gift for an ancient history reader or collector of classical mythological sculpture.

Made to order in PLA, with Ivory White, Marble Stone or Charcoal Black finishes and 5, 9 or 12 inch heights. All three finishes are decorative surface appearances on PLA. Intended for indoor display.

Source context: Bust of Sarapis, accession 22158, Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria; white marble, 2nd century CE, Sarapeion. Primary reference: Alexandrian Sculpture in the Graeco-Roman Museum, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2012, record 39, pages 130-131: https://www.bibalex.org/Attachments/Publications/Files/2013032014164931149_AlexandrianSculptureintheGraecoRomanMuseum.pdf. Digital model Bust of Serapis in a museum in Alexandria by holger.buss: https://sketchfab.com/models/4bb733fbdf944045a7627f971e903116; creator https://sketchfab.com/holger.buss; licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Modifications by TheBustVault: coincident vertices joined; only the lowest 0.6 percent of source height was leveled at the integral round foot and capped, then uniformly scaled and centered. The downloaded source orientation is retained; its left-right presentation differs from one published museum photograph, and a validated exact cast orientation is not claimed. No added pedestal, facial reconstruction, smoothing, decimation or remesh.