Head of an 'Ethiopian' depicted in Hellenistic mode; Ptolemaic Period; 332-30 B.C.; From Egypt; Possibly from Delta; Black bronze; gold; carnelian; obsidian; h. 3.9 cm (1 9/16 in); w. 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in); d. 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in); All black Africans were termed Ethiopians by the ancient Greeks; and Greek artists had defined for them a distinct iconography well before the cosmopolitan Hellenistic period; when; especially in Ptolemaic Egypt; regular contact came about