A Ptolemaic Queen, Possibly Cleopatra III
Berlin, Neues Museum, August 2014
A simple yet beautiful statue of a Ptolemaic Queen. A hole atop her head indicates that she originally bore a (probably tall) crown. The statue is dated by the museum to the early Ptolemaic Period (c. 300 BCE). Paul Edmund Stanwick, however, in his comprehensive study Portraits of the Ptolemies, attributes the statue to Cleopatra III (c. 141 – 101 BCE).
ÄM 21763. Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty (3rd – 2nd century BCE). Provenance unknown. Greywacke. H. 69 cm.
A Ptolemaic Queen, Possibly Cleopatra III
Berlin, Neues Museum, August 2014
A simple yet beautiful statue of a Ptolemaic Queen. A hole atop her head indicates that she originally bore a (probably tall) crown. The statue is dated by the museum to the early Ptolemaic Period (c. 300 BCE). Paul Edmund Stanwick, however, in his comprehensive study Portraits of the Ptolemies, attributes the statue to Cleopatra III (c. 141 – 101 BCE).
ÄM 21763. Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty (3rd – 2nd century BCE). Provenance unknown. Greywacke. H. 69 cm.