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Arsinoë IV (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη; between 68 and 63 BC – 41 BC) was the fourth of six children and the youngest daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes.One of the last members of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she claimed title of Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt and co-rulership with her brother Ptolemy XIII in 48 BC – 47 BC in opposition to her sister or half-sister, Cleopatra VII.
The Deliverance of Arsinoe is a 1555–56 painting by Tintoretto, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. It shows Arsinoe IV of Egypt fleeing from Alexandria after Julius Caesar arrived in the city in 48 BC and sided with Arsinoe's half-sister Cleopatra .
The siege of Alexandria was a series of skirmishes and battles occurring between the forces of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra VII, Arsinoe IV, and Ptolemy XIII, between 48 and 47 BC. During this time Caesar was engaged in a civil war against remaining Republican forces. The siege was lifted by relief forces arriving from Syria.
At least one of the women had a religious position as evidenced by the gazelle-headed diadem and possible sistrum found in the tomb. [ 7 ] Menhet, Menwi, and Merti were buried in Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud, an area used as the burial ground for royal women and children in the early Eighteenth Dynasty.
Arsinoe III (220-204 BC) possibly [b] ruled alongside her brother-husband Ptolemy IV. Cleopatra I (193-176 BC) possibly [c] ruled alongside her husband Ptolemy V and as a regent [d] on behalf of her son Ptolemy VI. The claimant queen of Egypt was Arsinoe IV (48-47 BC) who declared herself Pharaoh in opposition to her sister Cleopatra VII.
Eight years after the skull of an unidentified man was found on a South Akron sidewalk, investigators are hoping new technology can point the way to finally establishing who the deceased party was.
This claim is rejected by scholars, based on the remains being impossible to identify as Arsinoe, the race of the remains being impossible to identify at all, the fact that the remains belonged to a child much younger than Arsinoe when she died, and the fact that Arsinoe and Cleopatra shared the same father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, but may have ...
Kentucky State Police detectives found the decomposed body of a baby Friday that they believe is an 8-month-old girl who has been missing for weeks. The body was “hidden in a concealed manner ...