Ptolemaic Marble Portrait Head

in the style of the Royal Household

 

 

 

2nd - 1st Centuries BC

 

Height: 8.9 cm.     (3 1/2 in.)

 

ex: private American collection, mid-1980's; previously, a private Israeli collection, 1960's-1970's

 

cf. Stanwick, Paul Edmund ; Portraits of the Ptolemies : Greek kings as Egyptian pharaohs (Austin, 2002) no. 161-162; 240 (coin); 274-275

 

 

 

 

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