Giorgia Cafici, PhD (2017), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is former postdoctoral researcher at that university and currently President of the Centro Italiano di Egittologia “Giuseppe Botti”. She has published many articles on non-royal Ptolemaic sculpture.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and MapAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Ptolemaic Portraiture: Historical Prejudice and Previous Research1 Project’s Motives and Objectives2 History of Research3 Methodology4 Terminology and Conventions2 Contextualising Ptolemaic Private Portraiture1 Egypt between Greece and Rome2 Ptolemaic Private Sculpture between Local Tradition and Artistic Innovation3 Egyptian Portraiture and Its Coeval Mediterranean Context3 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture: Stylistic, Archaeological and Prosopographical Analysis1 Materials2 Dimensions and Proportions3 Statue Forms4 Iconography5 Treatment of the Face6 Treatment of the Body7 Dorsal Support8 Inscriptions9 Bases10 Rework and Usurpation11 Individuals12 Provenance4 Analysis, Interpretation and Dating1 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture and Roman Republican Portraiture: Defining a Relationship2 Sculptures without Realistic Traits3 Sculptures Dated to the Early Ptolemaic Period and Statues of Uncertain Date4 Conclusion5 Catalogue1 Introduction to the Catalogue2 IP3 UPAppendix 1: ‘Alexandrian’ Portraits of the First Century BCAppendix 2: Egyptian Antecedents of the Roman Republican VerismAppendix 3: Map of EgyptBibliographyIndex

Giorgia Cafici, PhD (2017), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is former postdoctoral researcher at that university and currently President of the Centro Italiano di Egittologia “Giuseppe Botti”. She has published many articles on non-royal Ptolemaic sculpture.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and MapAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Ptolemaic Portraiture: Historical Prejudice and Previous Research1 Project’s Motives and Objectives2 History of Research3 Methodology4 Terminology and Conventions2 Contextualising Ptolemaic Private Portraiture1 Egypt between Greece and Rome2 Ptolemaic Private Sculpture between Local Tradition and Artistic Innovation3 Egyptian Portraiture and Its Coeval Mediterranean Context3 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture: Stylistic, Archaeological and Prosopographical Analysis1 Materials2 Dimensions and Proportions3 Statue Forms4 Iconography5 Treatment of the Face6 Treatment of the Body7 Dorsal Support8 Inscriptions9 Bases10 Rework and Usurpation11 Individuals12 Provenance4 Analysis, Interpretation and Dating1 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture and Roman Republican Portraiture: Defining a Relationship2 Sculptures without Realistic Traits3 Sculptures Dated to the Early Ptolemaic Period and Statues of Uncertain Date4 Conclusion5 Catalogue1 Introduction to the Catalogue2 IP3 UPAppendix 1: ‘Alexandrian’ Portraits of the First Century BCAppendix 2: Egyptian Antecedents of the Roman Republican VerismAppendix 3: Map of EgyptBibliographyIndex

Giorgia Cafici, PhD (2017), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is former postdoctoral researcher at that university and currently President of the Centro Italiano di Egittologia “Giuseppe Botti”. She has published many articles on non-royal Ptolemaic sculpture.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and MapAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Ptolemaic Portraiture: Historical Prejudice and Previous Research1 Project’s Motives and Objectives2 History of Research3 Methodology4 Terminology and Conventions2 Contextualising Ptolemaic Private Portraiture1 Egypt between Greece and Rome2 Ptolemaic Private Sculpture between Local Tradition and Artistic Innovation3 Egyptian Portraiture and Its Coeval Mediterranean Context3 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture: Stylistic, Archaeological and Prosopographical Analysis1 Materials2 Dimensions and Proportions3 Statue Forms4 Iconography5 Treatment of the Face6 Treatment of the Body7 Dorsal Support8 Inscriptions9 Bases10 Rework and Usurpation11 Individuals12 Provenance4 Analysis, Interpretation and Dating1 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture and Roman Republican Portraiture: Defining a Relationship2 Sculptures without Realistic Traits3 Sculptures Dated to the Early Ptolemaic Period and Statues of Uncertain Date4 Conclusion5 Catalogue1 Introduction to the Catalogue2 IP3 UPAppendix 1: ‘Alexandrian’ Portraits of the First Century BCAppendix 2: Egyptian Antecedents of the Roman Republican VerismAppendix 3: Map of EgyptBibliographyIndex