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Fragment from Sarcophagus of Ptolemy II

330–30 B.C.

Red granite

69.85 × 64.77 cm (27 1/2 × 25 1/2 in.)
Gift of Fred Olsen
1954.52.1
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Egyptian
Period: 
Ptolemaic Period
Classification: 
Sculpture
Bibliography: 

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 192, no. 133, ill.

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