Roman Terracotta Head Collection. 2nd century A.D. A group of votive terracotta figure heads comprising a female head of orans with circular earrings and Graeco-Egyptian coiffures, the hair arranged in a series of thick plokamoi, bound together in a braid at the back of the neck; two heads of Harpocrates, the divine child: one showing him seated, with curly hair visible on the forehead, crowned with a thick wreath, the pschent crown on the head, the right hand raised to the lips in his iconic gesture; the other showing him with a detailed pschent crown over a thick wreath; each mounted on a custom-made display stand. See Savvopoulos, K., 'Popular divine imagery in Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria. The terracotta figurines collection of the Patriarchal Sacristy in Alexandria' in The Annual of the British School at Athens 2019, pp.1-52, figs.13-15, 18, 39. 130 grams total, 68-74 mm high (220 grams total, 81-88 mm including stands) (2 1/2 - 3 in. (3 1/4 - 3 1/2 in.)). North London gentleman, in storage since the 1970s. Property of a West London gentleman. These heads are all votive pieces linked to the cult of Egyptian deities within the Roman Empire, and are probably a product of a workshop in Alexandria. [3, No Reserve]