Head of Queen Arsinoe III

Description Conservation Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description Queen Arsinoe III, wife and sister of King Ptolemy IV Philopator, wears the royal diadem and the hairstyle of the goddess Isis.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
11/03/1988	Treatment	cleaned
11/30/2000	Treatment	cleaned; other

Exhibitions

From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989.

Provenance Maurice Nahman Sale, Berlin; Joseph Brummer, 1928; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928

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217-203 BCE (Hellenistic-Ptolemaic)

carved marble with traces of red pigment
(Sculpture)

23.6

5 1/2 x 3 1/8 x 3 1/16 in. (13.9 x 7.9 x 7.8 cm)