A LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A PTOLEMAIC QUEEN, her almond-shaped eyes with extended eyeline, wearing tripartite wig surmounted by the tail and feathers of a falcon, a tapering back-pillar behind, broken away at the elbows which are bent, mounted, circa 3rd Century B.C. | Christie's

Lot 107

107

A LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A PTOLEMAIC QUEEN, her almond-shaped eyes with extended eyeline, wearing tripartite wig surmounted by the tail and feathers of a falcon, a tapering back-pillar behind, broken away at the elbows which are bent, mounted, circa 3rd Century B.C.

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A LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A PTOLEMAIC QUEEN, her almond-shaped eyes with extended eyeline, wearing tripartite wig surmounted by the tail and feathers of a falcon, a tapering back-pillar behind, broken away at the elbows which are bent, mounted, circa 3rd Century B.C.
11in. (28cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a royal figure being protected by a falcon, cf. a granite statue of Ramesses II as a child with the god, Hurun, Cairo Museum JE 64753

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