Head of King

Description The king wears the royal "nemes" head cloth adorned with a coiled uraeus serpent on the brow. A confident smile, crisply defined eyes, and a sense of detachment and self-satisfaction are common in the facial features of Ptolemaic Period sculptures.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/25/1972	Treatment	cleaned; other
11/13/1972	Treatment	coated; stabilized
4/01/1989	Examination	survey
10/06/1998	Examination	survey
11/01/2000	Treatment	cleaned
1/11/2001	Treatment	other

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters