This paper discusses publication and study of portrait bust of Roman woman of elite. The bust was kept in Alexandria Graeco-Roman Museum, inv.16161, then It was transferred to The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo 2007, it was put at museum store in the same inv number. The bust consists of two parts, the head of woman and stem with neck below the collarbone, The problem of the research is not register any information about this portrait in the museum archives. The research tries to answer the following questions: who the owner of this bust? What is the purpose from sculpt it? What is the date of the bust?. Since the provenance of this image is unknown, so in this discussion we use artistic comparisons to other works of similar artistic examples. The references also provide us with the conditions of women in the Roman Egypt, One of the results of the research is that the bust is of a married woman and one of the elite, and it dates of the Julio-Claudian period.
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