Sealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister Philotera ca. 210–180 Ptolemaic Period Arsinoe II was divinized on her death, and a cult to her deceased sister Philotera was maintained alongside hers at least at Memphis for a certain period. This fragile unfired sealing from a papyrus names an official and priest of the two women. Recently a specialist has read the name of the priest Nesisti on the seal along with the epithet Epiphanes applied to Ptolemy V and his wife Cleopatra I, revealing the seaing dates to the beginning of the second century The priest
Sealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister Philotera ca. 210–180 Ptolemaic Period Arsinoe II was divinized on her death, and a cult to her deceased sister Philotera was maintained alongside hers at least at Memphis for a certain period. This fragile unfired sealing from a papyrus names an official and priest of the two women. Recently a specialist has read the name of the priest Nesisti on the seal along with the epithet Epiphanes applied to Ptolemy V and his wife Cleopatra I, revealing the seaing dates to the beginning of the second century The priest appears to be one Nesisti who was a member of the family that held the high priesthood of Ptah at Memphis during the Ptolemaic Sealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister Philotera 551298
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