Inlay Depicting the Face of a King
Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)
- Medium
- Glass
- Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Dimensions
- 2 × 1.3 × 0.5 cm (3/4 × 1/2 × 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Norman W. Harris
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Figures of the king or the gods made of pieces of brightly colored glass appeared about 1350 B.C. and continued to be made into the Ptolemaic period. The color follows the tradition in Egyptian art of depicting the skin of men as red.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
