A GREEK MARBLE PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN Ptolemaic Period, Circa 1st Century B.C. Her head turned to her left, with large lidded eyes and a small mouth, her earlobes perforated for the addition of now-missing earrings, her hair summarily carved, either to be completed in plaster or perhaps unfinished, but originally center-parted with a small chignon in back and tied with a diadem, with short locks along the edge of the forehead and a larger mass above, perhaps intended as a central tuft ( nodus ), sculpted to be inserted into a draped body 15¾ in. (39.3 cm) high
A GREEK MARBLE PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN Ptolemaic Period, Circa 1st Century B.C. Her head turned to her left, with large lidded eyes and a small mouth, her earlobes perforated for the addition of now-missing earrings, her hair summarily carved, either to be completed in plaster or perhaps unfinished, but originally center-parted with a small chignon in back and tied with a diadem, with short locks along the edge of the forehead and a larger mass above, perhaps intended as a central tuft ( nodus ), sculpted to be inserted into a draped body 15¾ in. (39.3 cm) high
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