Proskynema of the Achaean Theodotos for Ptolemy XII

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dc.title	Proskynema of the Achaean Theodotos for Ptolemy XII
dc.contributor.author	Rossini Alessandro
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/axon/2021/1/proscinema-dellacheo-teodoto-per-tolomeo-xii/
dc.description.abstract	A proskynema by an Achaian, at Philae, for Ptolemy XII and his children, is usually dated to the king’s widowhood. The death of Cleopatra Tryphaena, Ptolemy XII’s only known official wife, has been placed in 69-68 BC, while his youngest child was born in 59 to an unknown woman. Ptolemy died in 51. The inscription was dated 59/58-52/51. But traces of the reappearance of Tryphaena during the kings’s exile (58-55) – together with Berenice, the only legitimate daughter – implies that Tryphaena was deposed and subjected to abolitio memoriae, and that Ptolemy got involved in relationships illegitimate to Greek eyes. The absence of any queen in the proskynema could derive from their unimportance from a Greek point of view, and the epigraph could be, at least, ten years older.
dc.relation.ispartof	Axon
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 5 \| Issue 1 \| June 2021
dc.issued	2021-06-30
dc.dateAccepted	2021-05-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-02-13
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2532-6848
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2021/01/010
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Cleopatra Tryphaena
dc.subject	Cleopatra Tryphaena
dc.subject	Cleopatra VII
dc.subject	Cleopatra VII
dc.subject	Egypt
dc.subject	Egypt
dc.subject	Epithet
dc.subject	Epithet
dc.subject	Isis
dc.subject	Isis
dc.subject	Nubia
dc.subject	Nubia
dc.subject	Philae
dc.subject	Philae
dc.subject	Pilgrimage
dc.subject	Pilgrimage
dc.subject	Proskynema
dc.subject	Proskynema
dc.subject	Ptolemy XII
dc.subject	Ptolemy XII

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Alessandro Rossini Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia

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A proskynema by an Achaian, at Philae, for Ptolemy XII and his children, is usually dated to the king’s widowhood. The death of Cleopatra Tryphaena, Ptolemy XII’s only known official wife, has been placed in 69-68 BC, while his youngest child was born in 59 to an unknown woman. Ptolemy died in 51. The inscription was dated 59/58-52/51. But traces of the reappearance of Tryphaena during the kings’s exile (58-55) – together with Berenice, the only legitimate daughter – implies that Tryphaena was deposed and subjected to abolitio memoriae, and that Ptolemy got involved in relationships illegitimate to Greek eyes. The absence of any queen in the proskynema could derive from their unimportance from a Greek point of view, and the epigraph could be, at least, ten years older.

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June 30, 2021

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May 5, 2021

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Feb. 13, 2021

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Keywords: Isis • Philae • Cleopatra Tryphaena • Pilgrimage • Egypt • Nubia • Proskynema • Cleopatra VII • Epithet • Ptolemy XII

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