Head of the Ptolemaic sculpture or the sphinx from reddish granite

Catalogue entry

Head of the Ptolemaic sculpture or the sphinx from reddish granite
Archaeological museum in Split, Split
House Gotovac, north part of the Diocletian Palace
Split, Diocletian Palace, 19th c.
Egypt, unknown site, brought to Split c. 298-304 A.D.
Ptolemaic period (306-30 B.C.)
Roman Empire, reign of the Emperor Diocletian (284-305 A.D.)
reddish granite
25 x 24 cm
gift, family Cindro, 1875

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