Poseidon (on loan)

This image of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, was discovered mixed with a group of Indian and Romano-Egyptian objects in a hoard at the excavations at Brahmapuri in Maharashtra. Not all the objects are of the same date and this was obviously a valuable item that had been collected and held on to for centuries. This small image of the sea god could well have been a personal treasure of a seafaring trader and his family.