1st century B.C.-2nd century A.D.. Modelled in the round with the right hand raised palm-outward and left hand clasped, the pallium gathered round the body and draped over the head; on a base. 699 grams, 14 cm (5 1/2 in.).

Lieutenant Goodman served in the 4th Battalion Welsh Regiment during World War I and saw action in Palestine during the capture of Bethlehem, (for which he won an MC). After the war, he setup a business selling Fordson trucks and tractors in Alexandria, Egypt. A keen antiquarian, he collected ancient objects during his time in Alexandria and when he visited the pyramids at Giza. After his first marriage failed, he returned to the UK in the early 1930s. On his death in 1959, he passed his small collection of Egyptian objects on to his second wife, Ruby Goodman. On Ruby’s death in 1994, they were left to their second daughter, Rosemary Johnson, (née Goodman), and are currently in the possession of her son.

Acquired in Egypt by Lieutenant James Alexander Goodman in the 1920s. Thence by descent to his grandson. [No Reserve]