Carving of a Head of a Woman Set in a Mount

3rd century BCE (Ptolemaic)

1.5 cm 2.2 cm 1.4 cm

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This head of a woman, possibly Queen Arsinoe II (316-270 BCE), is shown frontally. The mount resembles a veil.

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Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, London, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Carmichael sale, Sotheby's, London, June 1926, p. 42, no. 375 (547); Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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