Lot 45
45
OBJECTS
A PAINTED CRYSTALLINE MARBLE HEAD OF A PTOLEMAIC QUEEN, POSSIBLY ARSINOE II, with hair parted in the middle and waving back, the pupils of the eyes drilled and showing traces of red paint, with long neck sensitively carved with two 'Venus wrinkles'

Details
A PAINTED CRYSTALLINE MARBLE HEAD OF A PTOLEMAIC QUEEN, POSSIBLY ARSINOE II, with hair parted in the middle and waving back, the pupils of the eyes drilled and showing traces of red paint, with long neck sensitively carved with two 'Venus wrinkles'
3rd Century B.C.
5¾in. (14.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

Although unable to identify the queen with certainty, she most closely resembles the portraits of Arsinoe II (circa 270 B.C.) from Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseumder Universität, B284; see Exhibition catalogue, Cleopatra's Egypt, The Brooklyn Museum, 1988-89, cat. nos. 64-66

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