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EGYPTIAN STEATITE PTOLEMAIC QUENN AS ISIS

She wears a chiton over which a himation is draped and secured in a knot between the breasts. She wears a vulture headdress atop her tripartite wig with its tiers of curls. In her left hand she holds a situla and in her right a fragmentary sistrum. The top of the head has a hole where a headdress was affixed.

Ex Parisian collection. 1970s; Au Vieille Chinois, Paris.

3rd-1st Century BC

H. 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.)

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$18,500


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