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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2463
Alexandria
Colonisations

Portrait of a Ptolemaic official

MAC BCN-021943

Object type
sculpture
Production date
-110 / -50
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Colonisations
Discovery location
Alexandria
Materials
black granite
Township
Egipte (Àfrica)
Technique
polishing
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
575 x 250 x 160 mm
Description
The sculpture represents the image of a standing man, but in a posture of walking, advancing on his left leg, in the hieratic style of Egyptian pharaonic statues. From the quite characteristic type of clothing, we can say that it was a person of a certain rank in the Ptolemaic administration, a senior official. That is, in the time after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great, when Egypt was ruled by the descendants of Ptolemy, Alexander's general who stayed in Egypt after he died.

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