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Ptolemy I, Soter - 3 [handwritten: Figs. 453-457 (Pl. XCVII, 1-3)] The marble portrait from Egypt now in Copenhagen (Pl. XCVII, 3) has [handwritten: bulges] similar grandiose forms in uniformly short and elastic curves and [handwritten: bulges for] the forehead, eyelids, nose, and chin. The hair was added in stucco and gilded in imitation of the golden hair of the cult statue, which may have been the model for the head. Though only a mask, it is a great work of art. It shows the expression of a fiery and powerful personality. If it really imitates [handwritten: with] the great general and ruler as a stern-looking man, with large features, and the cult statue it should be dated about 280 B.C. and therefore would be a posthumous portrait. But the agreement with the coins proves that here we have the features of the real man.
The same is true of the portraits of the first Greek ruling couple in Egypt as saviours (Pl. XCVII, 4) and also of the stucco relief of Ptolemy I and Berenice I in Alexandria (Pl. XCVII, 5) [handwritten: Figs. 459; Pl. XCVII, 2]. Front views of the head of Ptolemy I appear on the plaster cast from a silver or bronze plaque in the Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim (Pl. XCVII, 6) [handwritten: Fig. 456] and on a cameo in Vienna ([handwritten: Pl. I]), [handwritten: Pl. XCVIII, 7]. The heavy, [handwritten: and] full hair in both agrees with that on the saviour coins. All these monuments use similar forms for the eyes and the mouth. [handwritten: 460 / Fig. XCVIII, 7]
A head found in Pergamon and now in Berlin (Fig. [handwritten: 461 / Fig. 462]) executed in the Alexandrine technique with most of the hair finished in stucco, has curves similar to those of the Copenhagen head and also seems to imitate a chryselephantine portrait. It may have been dedicated by Ptolemy's son-in-law Lysimachus.
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