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In the warehouses of the Regional Archaeological Museum "Paolo Orsi" Syracuse is preserved a male head, very fragmentary, of white marble probably Pentelic, showing clear signs of rework. In the primary stage the head belonged to a... more

In the warehouses of the Regional Archaeological Museum "Paolo Orsi" Syracuse is preserved a male head, very fragmentary, of white marble probably Pentelic, showing clear signs of rework. In the primary stage the head belonged to a gravestone of attic type in pseudo-architectural structure, datable to the middle decades of the fourth century B.C. The transformation from a funerary relief to a portrait-head occurred reworking parts and adding specific attributes (royal insignia): two small bull horns, the mitra on his forehead and a radiate diadem. The accumulation of the three attributes refers to the iconographic context of the Ptolemaic dynasty, in particular recalls the portraits of Ptolemy III Euergetes, suggesting a chronology of reuse at maximum intensity of relations between Syracuse and Egypt: in the middle decades of the reign of Hiero II.

• • by Annarena Ambrogi
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  • Classical Attic Funerary Reliefs, Reuse of Ancient Sculptures, Ptolemaic Portraiture
• • by Giorgia Cafici
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  • Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Portraiture, Ptolemaic Period

“Alexandrianism: A Twenty-First Century Perspective,” in P. Leriche, Art et Civilisations de L’Orient Hellénisé: Rencontres et Échanges Culturels d’Alexandre aux Sassanides, UNESCO General Conference, September 2009 (Picard: Paris 2014)... more

“Alexandrianism: A Twenty-First Century Perspective,” in P. Leriche, Art et Civilisations de L’Orient Hellénisé: Rencontres et Échanges Culturels d’Alexandre aux Sassanides, UNESCO General Conference, September 2009 (Picard: Paris 2014) 173-182.

• • by Joan Breton Connelly
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  • Ptolemaic Egyptian, Ptolemaic Egyptian History, Graeco-Roman Alexandria, History of the Eastern Mediterranean
• • by Alana N . Newman
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  • Ptolemaic Egypt, Queen Arsinoë II, Egyptology - temple & tomb reliefs, Egyptian Temples
• • by Francois de Callatay
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  • Portraits, Cyprus Studies, Ptolemaic Egyptian History, Ptolemaic Period