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Ptolemaic Prince

Unknown51-30 B.C.E.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York City, United States

Statue of a late Egyptian kinglet, standing, arms by sides with hands clenched holding cylinders; traditional kilt with plain belt. Hair represented in naturalistic Roman style and encircled by narrow diadem, with uraeus; eyes originally inlaid. Uninscribed rear pillar. Material, unidentified red-brown hard stone (graywacke) * with black grains. May represent one of the sons of Cleopatra.Condition: Sculpture broken across thighs with lower section lost. Minor chips. Eyes lost. Nose Broken.

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