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The head belonged to a statue of a queen or a goddess. She wears a tripartite wig with uraeus and a headgear crowned with horns and a sun-disk. The eyes with long cosmetic lines were inlayed, the eyebrows are treated in a very low relief. The nose with a thin bridge and full smiling lips are characteristic of the Ptolemaic period. Close parallels allow us to make the dating more exact and to place the statue into the first century BC.

The head belonged to a statue of a queen or a goddess. She wears a tripartite wig with uraeus and a headgear crowned with horns and a sun-disk. The eyes with long cosmetic lines were inlayed, the eyebrows are treated in a very low relief. The nose with a thin bridge and full smiling lips are characteristic of the Ptolemaic period. Close parallels allow us to make the dating more exact and to place the statue into the first century BC.

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1909 - acquired by Turaev in Cairo;
1920 - acquired by the Hermitage with the collection of Turaev.

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Bibliography

Turaev B.A., Farmakovsky B.V., Opis' kollektsii drevnostey, privezennykh iz Egipta vesnoy 1909 goda. ZKORAO 6 (1910), p.175, no.63.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.125-126, cat.no.142, fig.89.

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Preservation: 
The upper part of the horns, the sun disk, the head of the uraeus and the inlayed eyes are lost; The nose and the lips are damaged.

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