Provenance
by 1975 -
Heinz Herzer (Munich, Germany)
- 1978
Private Collection, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1978.
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Object Details
Title:
Head of Ptolemy III
Artist/Maker:
Unknown
Culture:
Greek (Ptolemaic)
Place:
Egypt (Place Created)
Date:
246–222 B.C.
Medium:
Marble
Object Number:
78.AA.257
Dimensions:
16.8 × 9.1 × 11 cm (6 5/8 × 3 9/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line:
Anonymous gift in the name of the Antikenmuseum, Basel
Object Description
Head of a small statuette portraying Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-221 B.C) in the manner accustomed for Alexander the Great - beardless, short haired and with the head rotated to the side and a slightly upraised chin. Twelve holes are visible around the hairline for the fitting of a diadem.
Provenance
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Hellenistic Art from the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (January 25 to August 15, 2001)
- Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, January 25 to August 15, 2001
Bibliography
Bibliography
Kyrieleis, Helmut. Bildnisse der Ptolemäer. (Berlin: Mann, 1975), cat. no. C7; pl. 23; text pp. 168 ff., 33ff., 49, and 145.
Jucker, Ines. "Zum Bildnis Ptolemaios' III. Euergetes I." Antike Kunst 18 (1975), p. 17 ff., pl. 10.4-5.
Frel, Jiří. Antiquities in the J. Paul Getty Museum: A Checklist; Sculpture II: Greek Portraits and Varia (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, November 1979), p. 3, no. G3.
Jentoft-Nilsen, Marit. Ancient Portraiture: The Sculptor's Art in Coins and Marble (exh. cat.), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, April 29-July 20, 1980. Richmond: 1980, 52-53, no. 53, ill.
Frel, Jiří. Greek Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1981), pp. 79, 114, no. 29.
Ozgan, W. G.-R., "Ein hellenistischer Kopf in Bodrum" (where cited as no. C7 in H. Kyrieleis, Bildnisse di Ptolemaier [1975]), Archaeologischer Anzeiger, 1982, 1, p. 119 ff, p. 121.
Herrmann, Jr. J.J. "Exportation of Dolomitic Marble from Thasos: Evidence from European and North American Collections." In Ancient Stones: Quarrying, Trade and Provenance. Marc Waelkens et al., eds. (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1992), p. 94.
Frel, Jiří. "The Portraits of Demetrios Polioketes by Lysippos and Teisikrates." In Studia Varia (Rome: Bretschneider, 1994), "Some Ptolemies," pp. 99-104, viz. p. 101, no. 3.
Svenson, Dominique. Darstellungen hellenistischer Könige mit Götterattributen (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995), pp. 128-29, 307, 420, no. 345, pl. 60.1.
Thomas, Renate. Eine postume Statuette Ptolemaios' IV. und ihr historischer Kontext: Zur Götterangleichung hellenistischer Herrscher. Trierer Winckelmannsprogramme, 18 (Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2001), pp. 41, 44.