#hellenistic kings

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Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death : The Hellenistic Dynasties - Anna’s Archive

PROFESSOR DANIEL OGDEN The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynasti The Classical

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Ptolemy II (284 - 246 BCE)

* basalt

* Egyptian Museum, Turin

Turin, June 2023

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Ptolemy VI Philometor (186-145 BCE)

* king of Egypt

* reign 180-164 BCE and 163-145 BCE

* ring, Louvre

attribution: Louvre Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Nike and Poseidon

* Issued by Macedonian general and king Demetrius Poliorcetes (”Besieger”)

* 300-295 BCE

* Salamis

* minted to commemorate Demetrius victory over Ptolemaic Egypt at the battle of Salamis 306 BCE (?)

* Berlin State Museums, Numismatic Collection

https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=256142&cachesLoaded=true

Source: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin -  Creator: Bernhard Weisser; Copyright Notice CC BY-NC-SA

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Demetrius Poliorcetes (337-288 BCE)

* Greek general and King of Macedonia (294-288), Wiki

* Amphipolis

* 290-289 BCE

* gold

* Berlin State Museums, Numismatic collection

https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=256130&cachesLoaded=true

Source: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin -  Creator: Bernhard Weisser; Copyright Notice CC BY-NC-SA

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Bactrian drachma with an image of Nike

* issued by Indo-Greek king Antimachus II Nikephoros (”victorious”)

* 160-155 BCE

* silver

* Berlin antikensammlung

https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=147227&cachesLoaded=true

Provenance/rights: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz; Creator: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke und Wiedemann)  ; Copyright Notice;CC BY-NC-SA