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This scene is part of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina (c. 100 BCE), found in Palestrina, Italy. It portrays a group of Ptolemaic Greek soldiers in Egypt on the banks of the Nile. The soldiers are clad in typical Hellenistic equipment including...

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The Ptolemaic dynasty in Ancient Egypt began under the rule of Ptolemy I Soter, whose goal was to make Egypt great again and he did that by putting the country back on solid economic and administrative footing, and it ended with Cleopatra...

Today, traveling an hour by ferry from Piraeus, the port of Athens, the first remnant of Aegina's great past a visitor will see is the lonely pillar of Apollo rising from the trees on the hill of Kolona. Once a splendid complex of three buildings...

A limestone funerary stela portraying a blue-cloaked soldier with a spear and Galatian oval shield. from Alexandria, late 3rd century BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Gem intaglio mounted on gold and framed by glass, emeralds and garnets. The draped and sceptred figure is thought to be a Ptolemaic queen. In her right arm, she bears the cornucopia of Aphrodite or Isis-Aphrodite. Egyptian, 1st century BCE...

This roughly worked and approximately life-size marble portrait depicts a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The portrait was carved in Alexandria, Egypt, sometime during the 2nd Century BCE and is now part of the collection of the J. Paul...

This pottery jar was a storage vessel for funerary offerings and is thought to have once held some type of beef broth. On its surface, a beautiful floral pattern is painted. The jar was found in a Ptolemaic era tomb near Thebes, Egypt. The...

A carved garnet set in gold, depicting a Ptolemaic queen who is either Berenike II (r. 246-222 BCE) or Cleopatra I (r. 195-176 BCE). Created by the ancient artist Nikandros. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

This blue bowl is an excellent example of Egyptian faience ware, and why it was so highly regarded in the ancient Mediterranean. Ancient Egyptian artisans had been producing high-quality faience for millennia by the time this bowl was produced...