Portrait of a Ptolemaic King in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Head of a Pharoah (possibly Augustus)
250–25 B.C.

Dark gray schist

37 × 30.5 × 24.4 cm (14 9/16 × 12 × 9 5/8 in.) other (Height of face): 15 cm(5 7/8 in.)

Lent by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Barringer Collection, ANT.264259
ILE2012.1.29

Culture: Egyptian - Alexandrian

Period: Ptolemaic-Roman Period

Classification: Sculpture

Provenance: Unknown. Formerly in the collection of Victor Clay Barringer, a judge on the Court of Appeals, Mixed Tribunal, at Alexandria in the late 19th century

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Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/63767