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Cabeça de Arsínoe II

Ptolemaic Period
278–270 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134
Esta cabeça, parte de uma estátua de tamanho de metade da original, foi identificada como uma imagem de Arsínoe II, irmã e esposa do rei Ptolomeu II (284–246 a.C.), por suas muitas semelhanças com uma estátua no Vaticano que tem uma inscrição identificativa. Um detalhe desta estátua nos faz acreditar que é posterior ao período de oito anos durante o qual Arsínoe ostentou o título de rainha do Egito: na cabeça tem uma protuberância que servia para sustentar uma coroa, cuja posição e forma provável indicam que esta era a imagem de uma deusa, ou seja, Arsínoe deificada—e, portanto, falecida—sob a aparência da deusa Isis-Hathor. O estilo puramente egípcio evidencia que os ptolomeus, reis greco-macedônios, pretendiam apresentar-se como os herdeiros dos faraós.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Cabeça de Arsínoe II
  • Período: Período ptolomaico
  • Data: 278–270 a.C.
  • Geografia: Abu Roach, Wadi Qaren
  • Meio: Cálcario (endurecido)
  • Dimensões: 11,8 x 8,7 x 8,4 cm
  • Linha de créditos: Doação de Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1938
  • Número de acesso: 38.1
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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