Late Ptolemaic Queen in the Guise of the Goddess Isis

80–50 B.C.

Medium: Brown-black basalt
Dimensions: 48.6 × 23.5 × 14 cm, 19.5 kg (19 1/8 × 9 1/4 × 5 1/2 in., 43 lb.)
Credit Line: Yale University Purchase Fund
Accession Number: 1931.106
Culture: Egyptian, Ptolemaic
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Classification: Sculpture
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

ex-Mabel Scott Collection

Purchased by the Art Gallery from Mrs. Mabel Scott at the recommendation from Professor Ludlow Bull.

Bibliography

Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ed., When Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, exh. cat. (Princeton, N.J.: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2014), 54–5, 97, no. 71, fig. 3-11.

Paul Edmund Stanwick, Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 75, 87, 118, no. D5, fig. 121–22.

Sally-Ann Ashton, Ptolemaic Royal Sculpture from Egypt: The interaction between Greek and Egyptian Traditions (Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2001), 108-9, no. 55.

Dominique Svenson, Darstellungen hellenistischer Könige mit Götterattributen (Frankfurt Germany: Archaologischen Studien, 1995), 87, 232, no. 113, pl. 38.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 259, ill.

Robert S. Bianchi et al., Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies, exh. cat. (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum in association with Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988), 182, no. 74.

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 168–69, no. 95, ill.

Helmut Kyrieleis, Bildnisse der Ptolemäer, 2 (Berlin: Mann, 1975), 119, 184, no. M 8, pl. 103, fig. 1, 2.

John F. X. McKeon, Elizabeth Riefstahl, and William Kelly Simpson, Bulletin in Memory of William Stevenson Smith (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970), 244–59.

Bernard V. Bothmer and Elizabeth Riefstahl, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100: The Brooklyn Museum, 1960 (New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1960), 169–170, no. 130, pl. 121, fig. 324–326.

Winifred Needler, "Some Ptolemaic Sculptures in the Yale University Art Gallery," Berytus 9, no. 2 (1949): 129–141, Pl. 26, fig. 1, 2.

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, 1, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941), 872, pl. 99, fig. 1–2.

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Object/Work type

sculpture

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