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A GREEK MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A QUEEN
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
A GREEK MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A QUEEN PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C. Possibly Cleopatra VII, depicted as a young woman, her head turned slightly to her right, with an oval face, traces of a mole on her left cheek, her convex lidded eyes beneath modelled brows, her small mouth with protruding lips pursed into a slight smile, the chin rounded, the hair bound in a broad diadem, with ringlets below the diadem along the forehead and covering the upper half of both ears, the top and back of the head summarily sculpted, perhaps for completion in plaster, a small drilled mortice at the crown for insertion of an attribute, traces of a small top knot at the front of her diadem 12¼ in. (31.1 cm.) high