Arsinoe honours Rome with a visit

The Roman Forum

For the first time since the nineteenth century, Arsinoe exchanges her home in the Museo Civico del Palazzo Te di Mantova, Lombardia for the Capitoline museums of Rome where she will remain until 6 July. The loan of the serene bronze head of Queen Arsinoe III of Egypt is a welcome acquisition for the museums of Rome, which are lacking in works of the Hellenistic period.

Charismatic and fascinating, Arsinoe was queen of Egypt from 220-204, and was a famous political personality in her time.

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