The Portraits of the Ptolemies

From the third to the first centuries B.C. the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt commissioned a large number of royal portraits which were set up both at home and in Greek cities abroad. Their iconography ranged from Hellenistic kings aimed at their Greek subjects and allies to Egyptian pharaohs, addressed to the native population of Egypt

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