Head of King

late 4th-late 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic)

5.8 cm 7.9 cm 5 cm

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The king wears the royal "nemes" head cloth adorned with a coiled uraeus serpent on the brow. A confident smile, crisply defined eyes, and a sense of detachment and self-satisfaction are common in the facial features of Ptolemaic Period sculptures.

Sculpture

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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