Head of a Young Woman

1st century BCE (Ptolemaic or Roman Republican)

21.9 cm 31.3 cm 22 cm

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This portrait of a young woman illustrates the complex entanglement between Roman and Egyptian cultures. The realism of the young woman is typical of Roman portraiture of the late Republican period, but her facial features and elaborate hairstyle also resemble the sculpture of...

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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