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Head of a Ptolemaic Queen   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Head of a Ptolemaic Queen
Description

"This fragment illustrates the cosmopolitan nature of society in the Ptolemaic Period. Although the full face and small lips are Egyptian stylistic elements, the curly locks and coiled tresses are Hellenistic. The uraeus cobra on the forehead identifies the woman as a queen." (Brooklyn Museum database)

Depicted person: Cleopatra VII – ?
Date between 305 and 30 BC
Medium marble
medium QS:P186,Q40861
Dimensions 15 × 12 × 11.5 cm (5.9 × 4.7 × 4.5 in)
institution QS:P195,Q632682
Current location
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art collection
Accession number
71.12
Object history place of creation: Possibly Egypt
Credit line Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
References Paul Edmund Stanwick (2002) Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek kings as Egyptian pharaohs, University of Texas Press, pp. 124−125 ISBN: 9780292777729.
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This photo of item # 71.12 at the Brooklyn Museum was contributed under the team name "egotechnique" as part of the Wikipedia Loves Art project in February 2009.
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