Portrait of Ptolemy IV (?)

Classification
portrait; sculpture / statue
Culture
Graeco-Egyptian (culture)
Dimensions
height: 22 cm
Date
3rd–2nd century B.C.
Period
Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)
Material
marble analysis; Parian marble, lychnites
Iconography
diadem; ruler
Findspot
Egypt
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)
Inventory
4769
ID
Hyp-1085
References
Hekler 1929, 68–69, no. 57; Kyrieleis 1975, 47, 171, D 4, pls. 36, 1-2.

Marble analyses conducted by Danielle Decrouez (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences) have shown that the statue was made of Parian (Paros-Marathi) marble. Click here for the detailed results.

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