Ptolemaic period

Head of an unidentified young woman. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: Ptolemaic period. Place of Origin: Alexandria. Material Size: Bronze. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt. Location: 83.

Sculpted head of a veiled woman. Known as La Dame d'Alexandrie, and similar to many Ptolemaic royal portraits, her identity has yet to be conclusively established. The hair is dressed in cork-screw curls beneath a veil. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: Ptolemaic period. Place of Origin: Alexandria. Material Size: Greek marble. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt. Location: 83.

Portrait bust of Alexander the Great. The sculptor has attempted to evoke Alexander's professed religious experience at the Temple of Amun in the Siwa Oasis. He died before he could fulfill a vow to relate the experience only to his mother. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: Ptolemaic period. Place of Origin: Alexandria. Material Size: Red syennite (Aswan granite). Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt. Location: 83.