Appliqué of Ptolemy I as Dionysus

3rd century BCE (Ptolemaic)

8.5 cm 11.5 cm 4.2 cm

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Ptolemy I (ca. 367-283 BCE) was a Macedonian general in Alexander the Great's army and the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. This relief probably decorated the curved armrest of a bed or other piece of furniture. Ptolemaic rulers were viewed as divine by their Egyptia...

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Lambros Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Lambros-Dattari Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 17-19, 1912, p. 30, no. 254, pl. 17; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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