Hellenistic statue, Alexandria National Museum, Egypt
Statue, marble, early Hellenistic, resembling Alexander the Great, with left turn of the neck, upward glance, moving posture, possibly by Lysippan School, from Alexandria, in the Alexandria National Museum, opened 2003, in the former US consulate, a palace built 1926 on Tariq Al-Horreya street, in Alexandria, Egypt. The statue wears the royal diadem of Alexander-Dionysos and was probably originally holding a spear. The museum houses collections from Alexandria and Egypt, from the Pharaonic, Hellenistic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13744490
Media ID
45402541
Size
4724px x 7386px
(3.5MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
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