Head of a Queen, Perhaps Cleopatra II or Cleopatra III

ca. 140-120 BCE (Ptolemaic)

17.8 cm 24.7 cm 22.5 cm

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Shown wearing a heavy wig composed of tiers of "corkscrew" curls, the queen also has a headband with a coiled uraeus serpent above her brow. Of the seven Ptolemaic queens named Cleopatra (the last being the Cleopatra associated with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony), this head ma...

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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2
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Hellenistic
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