Royal head with an atypical snake and a headdress, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–200 B.C., From Egypt, Limestone, H. 10.3 × W. 8 × D. 4.5 cm (4 1/16 × 3 1/8 × 1 3/4 in.), The head is one of a class of objects referred to by the double designation sculptor's model / votive because they provide contradictory indications. However, recent research very strongly points to a ritual function for those that depict royalty in connection with royal hypostases that multiply in the last dynasties and the early Ptolemaic Period
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