Lot 86
86
AN EGYPTIAN BLACK SCHIST FRAGMENT OF A FEMALE FIGURE
AN EGYPTIAN BLACK SCHIST FRAGMENT OF A FEMALE FIGURE
AN EGYPTIAN BLACK SCHIST FRAGMENT OF A FEMALE FIGURE
AN EGYPTIAN BLACK SCHIST FRAGMENT OF A FEMALE FIGURE
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AN EGYPTIAN BLACK SCHIST FRAGMENT OF A FEMALE FIGURE

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 323-30 B.C.

Details
AN EGYPTIAN BLACK SCHIST FRAGMENT OF A FEMALE FIGURE
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 323-30 B.C.
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr Bruce Ralston, New York, acquired prior to September 1979.

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Lot Essay

This fragment comes from a statue of a standing female figure, possibly representing a Ptolemaic Queen, maybe Arsinoe II, holding the 'lily sceptre'. For similar examples see A. Donadoni et al., Il Museo Egizio di Torino, Novara, 1993, p. 207, now in the collection of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, inv. no.5466 and S. Albersmeier, Untersuchungen Frauenstatuen Ptolemäischen Ägypten, Mainz, 2002, pp. 29-32, pl. 75, for statues in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, inv. no. JE39406, and the National Archaeological Museum, Florence, inv. no. 6315.
The hieroglyphic inscription over the back pillar reads '[...] (sweet) of love, ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt [...]'.

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