About 70 cm tall, this was the top of a statue probably 3.5-4.5 m high. You can still see traces of red and brown pigment where gold leaf used to be. There are holes in the ears for metal earrings and a pinhole on top for a crown. The face is deliberately stern and realistic, not idealized. The curls and headband link her to the goddess Isis, typical for Ptolemaic queens.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi? Is that named in homage to the Louvre in Paris, or is there some kind of formal relationship between the two institutions..?