Bust of a Ptolemaic queen

The youthful goddess depicted with idealizing features, on a lon neck, her oval face with full cheek tapering to her rounded chin, her unarticulated almond-shaped eyes beneath arching brows, her center-parter wayvi locks pulled back from her face and tied in a chignon, two corkscrew curls framing her face on each side and covering her ears, with ten drill holes avoce the hair roll and a mortise at the top of the head for the insertion of a now-missing separately-made diadem and crown

Period
Ptolemaic period, 2nd-1st century B.C.
Dimension
H. 15.3 cm (6 1⁄32 in)

Art market, Switzerland, 1981
Private collection, Europe and South America
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 18 December 1998, lot 138
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 13 December 2013, lot 100

Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva

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