Berenice I, c. 340-268 BC, Queen of Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy I Soter. Second queen, after Eurydice, of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. Wearing her hair in ringlets under a royal diadem. Berenice. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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