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Royal head

Royal head
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Sobhy

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0136

Inv.Inventory
 (Greco-Roman Museum) 28103

where to find


Storeroom

Royal head

Category:
Sculpture in the round, statues, human / gods and goddesses statues, fragments of statues, head
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Period (323-31 BCE)
Provenance:
Upper Egypt, Asiut (Lykopolis), El Sehrij / El Sahrig
Height:
20.1 cm
where to find:
Storeroom



The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References
  • Evaristo Breccia, Le musée Gréco-Romain, 1925-1931 (Bergamo: Instituto Italiano d’Arti Grafiche, 1932): 17-18, 99, pl. IX, 32.
  • Winifred Needler, “Some Ptolemaic Sculptures in the Yale University Art Gallery”, Berytus 9, no. 2 (1949): 129-141.
  • Paul Edmund Stanwick, Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002): 110, cat. B. 22, fig. 69.
     
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