This portrait depicts a Queen of the Garamantes, an ancient civilization which developed in the Libyan Sahara of northern Africa between 500 BC and 700 AD. Since their culture would have had commercial times with both the Roman- and Hellenistic-controlled Mediterranean and the cultures of West and Central Africa, I wanted my Garamantian queen’s design to show a mixture of influences from those regions.
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