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Head of a Ptolemaic King (?)

Date

after 2nd century B.C.

Medium

Asia Minor marble

Culture

Greek

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

A male(?) head with sharply angular features. The face is thin with deep set eyes and a small, pursed mouth with a hint of an overbite. The nose projects from the forehead in a nearly straight diagonal line. The tendons in the neck are rendered with a particular prominence. Only the front of the hair is articulated, rendered in waves pulled back from the head; the rest is roughly worked. The figure wears a diadem. The marble is dark gray with a yellow patina.

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