Votive relief of Selene framed in the Zodiac: 2ndC-3rdC

Reddish marble carved votive relief of Selene: a female bust to the front in an arched niche, draped in a sleeved chiton, and with her hair parted in the middle and brought down over her ears, nose now missing, surrounded by a crescent on her head, seven stars in the field around and the signs of the zodiac in low relief; inscribed beneath with an unitelligible Gnostic formula Excavated/Findspot Argos 2nd C-3rd CBr itish Museum All the beings of our world are, in the eyes of the Gnostics, the sediment of a lost heaven. – Jacques Lacarriere