Sculptor's Model: King with ""Blue Crown""

ca. 200-80 BCE (Ptolemaic)

6.2 cm 11.6 cm 1.4 cm

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Sculptor's models were popular teaching aids among Ptolemaic workshops. Displayed on one side of this limestone plaque, in raised relief, is a kneeling king holding a wine jar in his hands. This carefully executed figure most likely served as a model for students. The plaque w...

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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