Bronze Seal Ring with the Portrait of a Queen, 300 BCE - 30 CE
Bronze
0.875 x 1.125
Z.0113
The graceful profile impression this intaglio makes bears a remarkable resemblance to Cleopatra, last of the Ptolemies. It depicts a woman with bound hair and steady gaze, whose beauty seems...
The graceful profile impression this intaglio makes bears a remarkable resemblance to Cleopatra, last of the Ptolemies. It depicts a woman with bound hair and steady gaze, whose beauty seems to radiate from some inner source. It is a portrait of such exquisite sensitivity as to almost surely have been made from life by a master artisan. When we gaze upon it, we feel as if we know the sitter intimately.
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