Ptolemaic figure of Alexander the Great

An image of Figure/Statuette. Ptolemais. Alexander the Great. Find Spot: Mansha, el- (Ptolemais Hermiou), Egypt. Marble, height 0.59 m, circa 100 B.C. Ptolemaic. Hellenistic Period.

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Figure/Statuette. Ptolemais. Alexander the Great. Find Spot: Mansha, el- (Ptolemais Hermiou), Egypt. Marble, height 0.59 m, circa 100 B.C. Ptolemaic. Hellenistic Period.

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Accession Number: GR.69.1970
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 596 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 326.29kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2014:01:28 10:56:15

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1st Century Alexander III of Macedon Alexander the Great Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece antiquity BC carved Egyptian Eskandar figure Hellenistic Period kings leaders male marble portraits Ptolemaic Dynasty rulers sculpture standing statuette young youth

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