Olympias by Elizabeth Carney

Author:Elizabeth Carney [Carney, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2006-08-17T03:42:35+00:00

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Figure 6.1 Vienna Cameo

Source: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

more dramatically with the accompanying female head than is the case with the more generalized features of both the man and the woman on the St Petersburg cameo.49 The contrast in treatment of the man and the woman is present on both, but greater on the Vienna cameo. Some features on each cameo suit the “Macedonian” identification fairly well, but others, most notably the absence of some standard features of Alexander portraiture, do not.50 On the other hand, both the male and (especially) the female profiles lack the comparative realism of Ptolemaic royal portraits.51 Besides, many rulers imitated Alexander and so might have been depicted with attributes associated with him, without intending to depict him.52

The iconography of a couple in superimposed profiles first appeared on Ptolemaic coins, initially those relating to deification of a royal pair,53

although later examples might also be taken to refer to co-rule, since later Ptolemaic women did co-rule. Most of the paired Ptolemaic coin images

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