Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Ptolemy Apion of Cyrene
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Ptolemy Apion of Cyrene
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Alternate Title:
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Bust of Thespis Auletes
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Image View:
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Overall view from the front
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Creator:
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unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 5598
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Location Note:
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Piazza Museo, 19
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GPS:
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+40.853378+14.250486
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Date:
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49-25 BCE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Imperial (Roman)
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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bronze
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Subjects:
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portrait; rulers and leaders; Herculaneum (Extinct city); bust; Ptolemaic
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Description:
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Found in the square peristyle of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Herm head with corkscrew curls that may be a 18th-century restoration, traditionally identified as Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrene, or Berenice. Ptolemy Apion (ca. 150-96 BCE) was the last Greek Cyrenaean (Libyan) King and was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Ptolemy was Greek and native Egyptian in descent. Berenice was the name of several Ptolemaic queens. The bust has also been described as an Arabian Sovereign, or possibly; Aulus Gabinius; Cleopatra Thea; the flautist Thespis Auletes. (Source: Mattusch, Carol C.; Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection, Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005 (978-0892367221))
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-NAM-VP-PT-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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