Faience Glass Vase Portraying Arsinöe II (Illustration)

Illustration

by Unknown
published on 27 February 2018

Faience Glass Vase Portraying Arsinöe II — This fragment of blue faience glass came from a kind of libation vessel known as "oinochoai" which were used in festivals honouring the deified Ptolemaic queens. The figure portrayed is Arsinöe II who wears her hair in the "melon-coiffure" style iconic of Ptolemaic royal women. The piece was made around 275-270 BCE and was found in the area of Alexandria. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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© Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Republished for educational/scholarly use under the museum's Open Access for Scholarly Content initiative. Original image by Unknown. Uploaded by Arienne King, published on 27 February 2018 under the following license: Copyright. You cannot use, copy, distribute, or modify this item without explicit permission from the author. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Unknown, . (2018, February 27). Faience Glass Vase Portraying Arsinöe II. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/8203/

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Unknown, . "Faience Glass Vase Portraying Arsinöe II." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified February 27, 2018. https://www.ancient.eu/image/8203/.

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Unknown, . "Faience Glass Vase Portraying Arsinöe II." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 27 Feb 2018. Web. 18 Aug 2019.