Unpublished Head-portrait of Berenice II

Masoud, Abdel-Hamid

doi:10.21608/iwnw.2025.437223

Unpublished Head-portrait of Berenice II

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Abdel-Hamid Masoud

Prof. of Graeco-Roman Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

10.21608/iwnw.2025.437223

Abstract

Underlife-sized marble female portrait discovered in Kafr El-Sheikh, H. 11 cm (Figs. 1a-g). Previously, the portrait was kept in the Storeroom of Tell el-Fara’in (‘Mound of the Pharaohs’- ancient Buto), in the Central Delta to the northwest of Kafr El-Sheikh, but was moved later to the display galleries of Kafr El-Sheikh's museum. The portrait was discovered inside a house at Kafr-Magar village, Desouk district, in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate. For an unknown purpose, the head was said to be used as a support for the house's door.

Keywords

References

Abd_el-Fattah, Ahmed & Queyrel, François. "Sculptures de la Bibliotheca Alexandrina." in: Alexandrina 2, Études alexandrines 6, edited by Empereur, Jean-Yves, 315-339. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 2002.

Anastasiades, Aristodemos. "Two Ptolemaic Queens and Cyprus: Iconographic issues." Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, no. 39, Année 2009, 259-270.

Ashton, Sally-Ann. "Ptolemaic royal sculpture from Egypt: the Greek and Egyptian traditions and their Interaction." PhD diss. London: King's College, 1999.

Bakowska-Czerner, Grażyna. "Aphrodite in Egypt: images of the goddess from Marina el-Alamein." Classica Orientalia: essays presented to Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski on his 75th birthday. Warsaw: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 2011: 97-114.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349103461_Aphrodite_in_Egypt_Images_of_the_goddess_from_Marina_el-Alamein

Bianchi, Robert et al., Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies. New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1988, 1988.

Bieber, Margarete. The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.

Blouin, Katherine. "Mendès et les reines: reconsidération historique des mosaïques navales de Thmouis (Alexandrie 21739 et 21736)." in: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008,edited by Panagiotis Kousoulis and Nikolaos Lazardis, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2015.

Cleland, Liza & al. Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z. London, New York: Routledge, 2007).

Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej. Corpus of mosaics from Egypt. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1985.

Delivorrias, Angelos. "Aphrodite", Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), II. Artemis Verlag, Zürich u. München, 1984.

Elgood, Percival George. The Ptolemies of Egypt. England, Bristol: J.w. Arrowsmith Ltd, 1938.

Faivre, Père, J. Canopus, Menouthis, Aboukir: Souvenirs païens, souvenirs chrétiens, souvenirs militaires. Translated by: Alexander Granville. Alexandrie: Société archéologique d'Alexandrie, Société de Publications Egyptiennes, 1918.

Fraser, Peter Marshall. Ptolemaic Alexandria, vols.1-3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.

Fulinska, Agnieszka. "Divae Potentes Cypri? Remarks on the Cult of the Ptolemaic Queens as Aphrodite." commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum: EOS: 99. Wrocław: Kraków; Warszawa: Polskie Towarzystwo Filologiczne, 2012.

Kyrieleis, Helmut. Bildnisse der Ptolemäer. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1975, 1975.

Lawrence, A. W. "Greek Sculpture in Ptolemaic Egypt." The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 11, No. 3/4 (October 1925): 179-190

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd & Winder, Stephanie A key to Berenike's Lock? The Hathoric model of queenship in early Ptolemaic Egypt, (Swansea: Oakville, CT: Classical Press of Wales; David Brown Book Co, 2011. 247-269.

Mahaffy, John Pentland. The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Vol. 1. Dublin: The Academy House, 1891.

Medeksza, Stanistaw. "Marina el-Alamein, Conservation work, 2000."Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (PAM) 12, (Reports 2000), (2001): 63-75.

https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/pam12/0007/image,info

Moormann, Eric M. Ancient Sculpture in the Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Series, 2000.

Palagia, Olga. "Berenike II in Athens." in: Early Hellenistic Portraiture: image, style, context, edited by Peter Schultz and Ralf von den Hoff, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Palagia, Olga. "Aspects of the Diffusion of Ptolemaic Portraiture Overseas." in: The Ptolemies: the Sea and the Nile, Studies in Waterborne Power, edited by Buraselis, Kostas et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 2013.

Pfrommer, Michael Göttliche Fürsten in Boscoreale, Der Festsaal in der Villa des P. Fannius Synistor (Trierer Winckelmannsprogramm, 12, 1992, vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern in Herder, 1993.

Queyrel, François. "Le garçon du cricket et les enfants d'Alexandrie." in: Alexandrina 4, Études d'Alexandrie 32, edited by Empereur, Jean-Yves. Alexandrie: Centre d'études alexandrines, 2014.

Romano, Irene Bald. Classical Sculpture: Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Museum monograph no. 125, 2006.

Schembri, Ann Marie. "Women in Power: From Goddesses to Mortals in the Ancient Mediterranean, The Case of Ptolemaic Egypt and Hasmonean Judea." Master's diss., University of Malta, 2018.

Schernig, Eva. "Berenike II. und die anderen," in: Städel-Jahrbuch 19. 2004, Fremdheit Eigenheit : Ägypten, Griechenland und Rom; Austausch und Verständnis, editd by Bol, Peter Cornelis, 433-454. Stuttgart: Scheufele, 2004.

Seaman, Kristen, Rhetoric and Innovation in the Art of the Hellenistic Courts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Smith, Roland, R. R., Hellenistic Sculpture, a Handbook. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.

Thompson, Dorothy Burr, Ptolemaic Oinochoai and Portraits in Faience: Aspects of the Ruler-cult. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.

Thomas, Ross. I. & Higgs, Peter, Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt: Greek and Roman sculpture, British Museum Online Research Catalogue: 2017. www.britishmuseum.org/naukratis

Visser, Cornelia Elizabeth. Götter und Kulte im ptolemäischen Alexandrien. Amsterdam: N. v. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-mij, 1938.

Walker, Susan and Higgs, Peter. Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Wright, Frederick Adam. "Diadem." In: The Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Cary, M., et al. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1949.