Queen marble head. Greek Art Alexandria. Queen Arsinoe II Hellenistic period

Marble head, portrait of the queen Arsinoe II as Aphrodite. The hair is incomplete because it was made in stucco following the Alexandrian custom, due to the rarity of Greek marble in the capital of Hellenistic Egypt. Ptolemaic period. Arsinoe II was deified in the guise of Aphrodite after her death in 270 BC

Related work n ° MNC2318 Le Louvre. Ref: M. Hamiaux - Une reine démasquée au musée du Louvre. Arsinoé II divinisée en Isis-Séléné, Rev. arch., 1996/1, p. 14515