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Ptolemaic Period
This small gypsum relief depicts a woman with Hellenistic-style features and corkscrew locks. Over her brow she wears what appears to be a small uraeus, and the lowest band encircling her head could be a diadem. The two sectioned rows above the diadem are difficult to explain in terms of known iconography.
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Title: Female relief head with fillet
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Date: 332–30 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Alabaster (gypsum)
Dimensions: h. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.) × w. 4.4 cm (1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter Sharrer, 1986
Object Number: 1986.456.1
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