A GRAECO-EGYPTIAN MARBLE HEAD OF A HELLENISTIC RULER

CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.

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A GRAECO-EGYPTIAN MARBLE HEAD OF A HELLENISTIC RULER
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Strongly modelled, depicting a male head with upward gaze, his short curly hair bound in a fillet, with strong, furrowed brow and deep-set hooded eyes, with pronounced 'Adam's apple', restoration to lower lip and left part of chin, mounted, on spirally twisted grey marble column
Head 7 in. (17.5 cm.) high; column 35.3/8 in. (89.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Consul General Karl Bergsten (d. 1953); acquired from the Gizeh Museum, Cairo, circa 1930.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Generalkonsul och Fru Karl Bergstens Föregaende Kataloger över deras Konstsamling, Vol. III, Stockholm, 1950, pl. XXXIV:1, no. 2.

Although difficult to identify, the head with its flat diadem suggests an early Ptolemaic(?) ruler, possibly in the guise of Herakles.

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