This ancient Egyptian relief from Dendera shows Cleopatra. The original is in the Louvre in Paris. Dendera (or Dendarah) has been an agricultural town on the west bank of the Nile. It was the capital of the sixth province of pharaonic Upper Egypt and was dedicated to the sky and fertility goddess Hathor (often depicted as a cow bearing the sun disk between her horns, especially when shown nursing the king and she could also appear as a woman with the head of a cow). Her temple is one of the best preserved in Egypt. The present building dates to the Ptolemaic Period (305–30 BC) and was complete
This ancient Egyptian relief from Dendera shows Cleopatra. The original is in the Louvre in Paris. Dendera (or Dendarah) has been an agricultural town on the west bank of the Nile. It was the capital of the sixth province of pharaonic Upper Egypt and was dedicated to the sky and fertility goddess Hathor (often depicted as a cow bearing the sun disk between her horns, especially when shown nursing the king and she could also appear as a woman with the head of a cow). Her temple is one of the best preserved in Egypt. The present building dates to the Ptolemaic Period (305–30 BC) and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius (14–37AD). It rests on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back at least as far as Khufu (second king of the 4th dynasty [c. 2575–c. 2465 BC]). Cleopatra VII (69-30 ), the daughter of Ptolemy XI, of Egypt. She married her brother Ptolemy XII and began to rule Egypt with him when she was 17. She later aligned with Julius Caesar against her brother. Following Caesar's death, she aligned herself with Mark Antony. Following Antony's death, she is said to have killed herself, as legend has it, by the bite of an asp.
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