# Inlay Depicting the Face of a King

- By: Ancient Egyptian
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Norman W. Harris
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/631)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/5bf620dd-1e2d-0ac2-b91f-7478cfad41f2/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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