





ROYAL PORTRAIT OF PTOLEMY II OR III POSSIBLY DEPICTED AS A SPHINX
- Egypt
- Ptolemaic period
- 332 BC to 30 BC
- Limestone
- H. 45 cm (18 in.)
- Provenance:
• Former collection of Albert Eid (1886–1950). The son of a Belgian consul to Egypt, Albert Eid was born in Cairo and ran an antiquities shop at Sikket el-Bådistån in Khan el-Khalili under the name ‘Albert Eid & Co.’.
• Owned by the Grusenmeyer family prior to 1973.
- Published:
• Adbel Hamid ZAYED, Egyptian Antiquities, printed by the Scribe égyptien S.A.E., Cairo,1962, fig. 24 & 25, pp. 17-18.
Photo credit : Studio Asselberghs – Frédéric Dehaen
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