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Ptolemaic Prince
Unknown51-30 B.C.E.
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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Details
- Title: Ptolemaic Prince
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 51-30 B.C.E.
- Location Created: Egypt
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- External Link: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3603/Ptolemaic_Prince
- Medium: Graywacke
- Period: Late Ptolemaic Period
- Dimensions: 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm)
- Collection: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Accession number: 54.117
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