Carving of a Head of a Woman Set in a Mount

Description This head of a woman, possibly Queen Arsinoe II (316-270 BCE), is shown frontally. The mount resembles a veil.

Conservation

Examined and cleaned in preparation for loan.

Examined and cleaned in preparation for loan.

Date	Description	Narrative
	Examination	Examined, cleaned
	Treatment	Examined, cleaned
12/14/1978	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989.
• Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World. 2016.

Provenance Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, London, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Carmichael sale, Sotheby's, London, June 1926, p. 42, no. 375 (547); Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1927