Head of a Pharoah (possibly Augustus) | Yale University Art Gallery

250–25 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art

Medium: Dark gray schist
Dimensions: 14 9/16 × 12 × 9 5/8 in. (37 × 30.5 × 24.4 cm)
Height of face: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)
Credit Line: Lent by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Barringer Collection, ANT.264259
Loan number: ILE2012.1.29
Culture: Egyptian - Alexandrian
Period: Ptolemaic-Roman 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

Unknown. Formerly in the collection of Victor Clay Barringer, a judge on the Court of Appeals, Mixed Tribunal, at Alexandria in the late 19th century

Bibliography

Paul Edmund Stanwick, Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 78, 120-21, 199, no. D18, fig. 143-44

Sally-Ann Ashton, Ptolemaic Royal Sculpture from Egypt: the interaction between Greek and Egyptian traditions (Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2001), 63, fig. 2.1

Susan Walker and Peter Higgs, Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth, exh. cat. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001), 172–3, no. 171, ill

J. A. Josephson, Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Late Period, 400–246 B.C. (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1997), 20

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), 147–48, 157, 249, no. 52

R. R. R. Smith, Hellenistic Royal Portraits (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 169

Anne-Kathrein Massner, "Ägyptisierende Bildnisse des Kaisers Claudius.," Antike Kunst 29 (1986), 67

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 170–71, no. 96, ill

Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, 1st (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1981), 142, no. 111

V. M. Strocka, Eikones: Studien zum griechischen und römischen Bildnis : Hans Jucker zum sechzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet, eds. Rolf A. Stucky and Ines von Jucker (Bern: Francke Verlag, 1980), 180

Miguel de Bragança, Ancient Egypt: God, King, and Man, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Peabody Museum, 1978),

"Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings," Topographical Bibliography 8 (1978-1999), no. 800-942-501

Helmut Kyrieleis, Bildnisse der Ptolemäer, 2 (Berlin: Mann, 1975), 37ff, 44, 136, 170, no. C 16, pl. 28, 1-3

Z. Kiss, "Notes sur le Portrait Imperial Romain en Egypte," Miteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 31 (1975), 293–302, Pl. 98c

Günter Grimm, Die römischen Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1974), 75, 112, pl. 19: 4

Wolfhart Westendorf, Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture of Ancient Egypt (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968), 229, ill

Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, Portraits of the Greeks, 3 volumes (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), vol. 3, p. 264

Nicola Bonasca, "Per L'Iconografia di Tolomeo IV," Annuario della Scuola Archeologicca di Atene e Delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 21–22 (1960), 369, 372, no. 3, fig. 5

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), 131-133, no. 103, pl. 96

Winifred Needler, "Some Ptolemaic Sculptures in the Yale University Art Gallery," Berytus 9, no. 2 (1949), 129–141, Pl. xxv, fig. 3–4

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

Edwyn Robert Bevan, A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty (London: Methuen & Co., 1927), 29, fig. 8

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