| Period: | | Egypt, Graeco-Roman Period, Macedonian Period, Alexander The Great |
| Dating: | | 332 BC–323 BC |
| Origin: | | Egypt, |
| Material: | | Porphyry |
| Physical: | | 11cm. (4.3 in.) - 100 g. (3.5 oz.) |
| Catalog: | | STO.MM.00366 |
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This porphyry statuette, represents a king of Egypt wearing the royal Nemset headdress, presumed to be Alexander the Great (Mry-imn Stp-n-ra), 332-323 BC.
Parallel:
Cairo Museum # JE 39521 “Portrait of Alexander the Great, Ptolemaic Period c. 150 BC” (Tiradritti 1998:372).
Bibliography (for this item)
Bosworth, A. B.
1988 Conquest and Empire: The reign of Alexander the Great. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
More, Daisy, and John Bowman
1986 Aegean Rivals. Boston Publishing, Boston, MA. (86-87)
Papainannou, K, and J Bousquet
1972 L’art grec. L’art et la civilisation de la Grèce ancienne. Les sites archéologiques de la Grèce et de la grande-Grèce. Editions d’art Lucien Mazenod, Paris, France.
Tiradritti, Francesco
1998 Egyptian Treasures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. White Star Publishers, Vercelli, Italy. (372)
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