Egyptian limestone sculptor's model of a king's head

An image of King's head, sculptors model. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Carved limestone, circa 332 to circa 30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period. Production Note: Rulers of Dynasty 30 and the Ptolemaic period used this 'portrait type'. The continuation was probably a deliberate attempt to associate the new Greek rulers with the last Egyptian dynasty.

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King's head, sculptors model. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Carved limestone, circa 332 to circa 30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period. Production Note: Rulers of Dynasty 30 and the Ptolemaic period used this 'portrait type'. The continuation was probably a deliberate attempt to associate the new Greek rulers with the last Egyptian dynasty.

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Accession Number: E.GA.4543.1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Mark Box
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 93.89kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2012:04:16 20:35:53

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Ancient Egypt antiquity BC carved faces figure Fitz_ANT hair head head-dress headdress heads kings limestone male model Ptolemaic Dynasty sculpture

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