Relief: Queen or Goddess with Vulture Headdress

ca. 250-150 BCE (Ptolemaic)

11.9 cm 15.3 cm 1.7 cm

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This relief plaque was probably a sculptor's model or study. It shows a royal or divine woman wearing the vulture headdress topped with protective uraeus serpents. The intricate and detailed patterns of headdress, wig, and collar contrast with the smooth plains of the face.

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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