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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.
Arsinoe II: Ptolemy II Philadelphus (Kg. 285–246 BC) Arsinoe I: Berenice II of Egypt (daughter of Magas of Cyrene, see above: Berenice I) Ptolemy III Euergetes (Kg. 246–221 BC) Berenice Syra: Antiochus III the Great: Arsinoe III: Ptolemy IV Philopator (Kg. 221–203 BC) Cleopatra I Syra: Ptolemy V Epiphanes (Kg. 203–181 BC) Ptolemy VI ...
Arsinoe IV, Egyptian princess and (half) sister of Cleopatra VII (b. 68 or 67 BC) Pasherienptah III, Egyptian High Priest of Ptah (b. 90 BC) [1]
Researchers in Russia on Monday unveiled the remarkably well-preserved remains of a 50,000-year-old female baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the Yakutia region of Siberia.. The remains ...
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.
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 ...