Un ritratto femminile tolemaico (?) al Museo Gregoriano Egizio

A well-preserved marble portrait in the Museo Gregoriano Egizio (formerly Grassi Collection), from the Cairo antique market, has been ascribed in the past to Ptolemy I or Ptolemy II, and dated to the II century b.C. or to the julio-claudian period. A new analysis reveals that the sculpture represents a woman, because of the coiffure. We can suppose that the portrait shows an aged ptolemaic queen of the II century b.C., when a new royal ideal gained ground and forceful portraits occur in the royal feminine sculptures.