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332 Alexandria replacing Rome in Suetonius,
Caligula
49, Graves trans., p.173; Caligula âturned to Cleopatra's Alexandria for a sense of courtly life as it was never lived in the days of the first citizen of the restored Republic'. Walker 2003.(b) p.85.
332 Obelisk for Antonius in Habachi p.131; Caligula's attitude to Isis in Walker and Higgs (eds) 2001, p.286, 288, and to âMoon goddess' in Suetonius,
Caligula
22, Graves trans., p.159.
332 âmensa Isiaca' in Tiradritti 1998, fig.23; priest of Isis and Serapis in Witt 1971, p.317, note 17; Poppaea's embalmment in Tacitus,
Annals
XVI.6 in Toynbee 1971, p.41.
332 âwould not be allowed to publish a free and unvarnished report on the intervening period'. Suetonius,
Claudius
41. 2, Graves trans., p.205.
333 âtotally her mother's daughter'. Roller 2003, p.90.
333 âbrought them up no less tenderly than if they had been members of his own family, and gave them the education their rank deserved'. Suetonius,
Augustus
17, Graves trans., p.59.
333 Fates of Ptolemy and Alexander Helios in Roller 2003, p. 84 and Hamer 1993, p.21.
333 âbefore military and marriageable age'. Roller 2003, p.84.
334 Statue of Tuthmosis I, Cherchel Museum S.74 in Roller 2002, p.142; Tuthmosis III in Scott 1933, p.175; uraeus Cherchel Museum S.86 in Roller 2003, p.142; Amun/Amnion, Cherchel Museum 66 in Roller 2002, p. 142.
334 âgallery of ancestors'. Holbl 2001, p.251.
334 Images of Juba II, e.g. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 1591, in Roller 2002, fig.19, p.147; Cherchel Museum S.166 in Sennequier and Colonna (eds) 2003, no.165, p.148.
334 âthe marks of her devotion and love for her mother country'. Walker and Higgs (eds) 2001, p.219 referring to Cherchel S.66; see also Louvre MA.3500 in Higgs and Walker 2003, p.71.
334 Statue of Ptolemy I, Cherchel Museum 50 in Roller 2002, p.142; statue of Petubastis III, Cherchel S.75 in Roller 2002, p.143.
334 âthe veiled head shows perhaps a different portrait type of Cleopatra VII'. Cherchel Museum S.65 (28), in Higgs in Walker and Higgs (eds) 2001, p.208; see also Grant 1968, p.172; Brogan 1966, p.242.
334 Alexander the Great bust from second-century AD North Africa, National Museum of Denmark Inv.ABb97, in Chugg 2004, p.56.
334 âprominent but beautiful nose'. Brogan 1966, p.242; claim head is male by Ferroukhi in Walker and Higgs (eds) 2001, p.242.
335 âarranged in no recognizable coiffure'. Walker and Higgs (eds) 2001, p.312, in reference to silver dish Louvre Bj.1969.
335 âinherited her mother's strong prominent nose but leave us with the impression that she was probably prettier than Cleopatra VII'. Whitehorne 2001, p.199.
335 âeven more distinguished for his renown as a student than for his royal sovereignty'. Pliny,
Natural History
V.16, in Loeb trans, p.231.
336 âCanaria'. Roller 2002, p.197; discussion of Egyptian-style mummification in Prahl 2004, pp.80-92 and Fletcher 2004, p.136.
336 âso far as Kingjuba was able to ascertain'. Pliny,
Natural History
V.51-53, in Loeb trans., p.257.
336 âthe Nile above the 3rd cataract, together with its tributary, the Atbara, can indeed be envisaged as dividing Ethiopia from Egypt'. Braund 1984, p.177.
336 âGreat neighbour regions of the world, which the full stream of Nile separates from the black Aethiopians, you have made common kings for both by marriage, making a single race of Egyptians and Libyans. May the king's children hold from their fathers in their turn firm dominion over both mainlands'.
Anth.Pal.9.
235, in Braund 1984, p.175.
336 âthe unusually elevated status of women at Caesaraea in the centuries following her death'. Roller 2003, p.257.
336 âwhen she rose the moon herself grew dark, veiling her grief in night, for she saw her lovely namesake Selene bereft of life and going down to gloomy Hades. With her she had shared her light's beauty, and with her death she mingled her own darkness. Crinagoras 18/
Anth. Pal.
7.633 in Whitehorne 2001, p.201.
337 âthe public memorial of the royal family'. Pomponius Mela in Scott 1933, p.169; Sennequier and Colonna (eds) 2003, p.109.
337 âwhich could have held only two or three inhumation burials'. Toynbee 1971, p.159, with remains of looted contents in Scott 1933, p.173.
337 âtoga picta'. Barrett 1989, p.116.
337 Statue of Ptolemy of Mauretania Louvre MA.1887 in Roller 2003, p.149; Sennequier and Colonna 2003, pp.143, 149.
337 âRegma Urania'. Roller 2003, p.252, note 41.
338 âson of Kingjuba and descendant of King Ptolemy'. Braund 1984, p.178.
338 âattracted universal admiration'. Suetonius, Gaius Caligula 35.2, Graves trans., p.166-67; Cassius Dio 59.21 in Barrett 1989, pp.116-18; possibility âhe hoped for an enlarged kingdom in North Africa, even including mighty Egypt itself in Braund 1984, p.178.
339 âDrusilla, granddaughter of Cleopatra and Antonius'. Tacitus,
Histories
5.9-10, Wellesley trans., p.285; see also Roller 2003, pp.251-2.
339 âthe Dioscuri'. Acts 28.11 in Witt 1971, p.293, note.5. 339 âmade saviours'. Witt 1971, p.70.
339 âthe one with beautiful long hair'. Scarre 1995, p.182; Zenobia claiming descent from Cleopatra in Roller 2003, p.255, note 65; âNew Cleopatra' in Holbl 2001, p.310.
340 âset us free from Zenobia'.
Historia Augusta
, Claud. 4.4 in Zahran 2003, p.i.
340 âwalls were torn down and it lost the greater part of the area known as the Brucheion'. Ammianus Marcellinus in MacLeod (ed.) 2002, pp.72-73.
340 âbi-yadi la bi-yad âAmr ... âI die by my own hand, not that of Amr'. El-Daly 2005, p.136; Zahran 2003, p.16.
340 Cleopatra âappears in gold in the temple of Venus'. Cassius Dio 51.22.3, Scott-Kilvert trans., p.83; claim Egypt praised âher Cleopatra' by Ammianus Marcellinus,
Roman History
XXVIII.4.9, in Bowersock 1969, p.254; Cleopatra's cult sites in Holbl 2001, p.310, el-Daly 2005, p.137.
340 âI overlaid the figure of Cleopatra with gold'. Holbl 2001, p.310; treaty and festival in Witt 1971, pp.62, 165 and Bowman 1986, p.51.
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