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PROSPECT HEIGHTS/Exhibit On Egypt in Ptolemaic Era "Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies," a traveling art exhibitabout one of the most important historical and cultural periods inancient Egyptian history, opened Friday at the Brooklyn Museum.
Displaying 165 works drawn from 40 public and private collections in this country and Europe, the exhibit surveys the Ptolemaic period of Egyptian art (305-30 BC). It includes masterpieces of stone art (305-30 BC). It includes masterpieces of stone statuary and relief, gold jewelry, silver vessels, figurines in terra cotta and faience, illustrated scenes from the Book...