Egypt
- Ptolemaic Gold Coin Found In Israel
CNN (Les Neuhaus) Many thanks to Rhio for the link. With a photo of, as he says, the very beautiful coin. A rare gold coin dating back 2,200 years was discovered by a combined university research team in Israel, a top Israeli antiquities official said...
- Egypt Finds Hoard Of 2,000-year-old Bronze Coins
Thanks to everyone who sent links for this story. Boston Globe Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, the Egyptian antiquities authority...
- More Re Investigations Into Ptolemaic Sea Combat Off Cyprus
Yahoo According to the ancient Greek historian, Diodorus of Sicily, in 306 BC Demetrios the Poliorketes (Besieger) triumphed over Ptolemy I of Egypt in a naval engagement off Cyprus, with dozens of vessels sunk as the result of combat. "It is well known...
- Last Of The Ptolemies
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/arts/design/03anti.html?oref=login A bronze bust of Ptolemy of Mauretania, grandson of Anthony and Cleopatra and last of the Ptolemies is going on sale at auction. Ptolemy was the son of Cleopatra and Anthony's daughter...
- Ancient Inscribed Slab Brought To Light - More On The Bubastis Stone
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw1082380500222B221&set_id=1 http://img.web.de/c/00/47/56/85.420 (image) It shows a royal decree, written in ancient Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphs. The inscription consists of 67 lines of Greek text...
Egypt
Ptolemy's Alexandrian Postscript
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200606/
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200606/ptolemy.s.alexandrian.postscript.htm
"In the first years following Alexander’s death, Ptolemy (like the other so-called Successors) continued to mint the traditional coinage that had been issued by his hero. The main type of coin had shown Alexander’s putative ancestor Herakles (Hercules) wearing on his head the lion scalp that commemorated one of his legendary labors. It was, after all, normal Greek practice to reserve the “heads” side of a coin for the portrait of just such a god or goddess: Athena at Athens, Persephone at Syracuse, Helios at Rhodes and so forth. Then Ptolemy dared take a step that has stirred no end of debate among scholars—one that, in essence, threw a rock into the still waters of Greek art and religion, sending great ripples outward through time and place to Sicily, Syria, Rome and beyond: Ptolemy replaced the portrait of Herakles on Alexander’s posthumous coinage with a stunning image of another god—Alexander himself."
See the above page (the second link) for the full story.
- Ptolemaic Gold Coin Found In Israel
CNN (Les Neuhaus) Many thanks to Rhio for the link. With a photo of, as he says, the very beautiful coin. A rare gold coin dating back 2,200 years was discovered by a combined university research team in Israel, a top Israeli antiquities official said...
- Egypt Finds Hoard Of 2,000-year-old Bronze Coins
Thanks to everyone who sent links for this story. Boston Globe Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, the Egyptian antiquities authority...
- More Re Investigations Into Ptolemaic Sea Combat Off Cyprus
Yahoo According to the ancient Greek historian, Diodorus of Sicily, in 306 BC Demetrios the Poliorketes (Besieger) triumphed over Ptolemy I of Egypt in a naval engagement off Cyprus, with dozens of vessels sunk as the result of combat. "It is well known...
- Last Of The Ptolemies
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/arts/design/03anti.html?oref=login A bronze bust of Ptolemy of Mauretania, grandson of Anthony and Cleopatra and last of the Ptolemies is going on sale at auction. Ptolemy was the son of Cleopatra and Anthony's daughter...
- Ancient Inscribed Slab Brought To Light - More On The Bubastis Stone
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw1082380500222B221&set_id=1 http://img.web.de/c/00/47/56/85.420 (image) It shows a royal decree, written in ancient Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphs. The inscription consists of 67 lines of Greek text...