Royal Bust

2nd century BCE (Ptolemaic) H: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm) Citation Source image

This wooden model represents a Ptolemaic pharaoh, one of the Greek kings who ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great. He wears the royal nemes headdress with a serpent. Though it is not the normal royal cobra-the uraeus-as its head hangs down on the king's forehead...

Sculpture

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29438
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sculpture
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normalized
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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