Berenice II of Egypt
Queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 to 246 BCE and queen of Ptolemaic Egypt (246-221 BC) · Lived 267 BC to 221 BC · aged 46
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Something wrong?Queen of Egypt who ruled alongside Ptolemy III in the third century BCE, she's remembered less for statecraft than for a votive offering: her sacrificed hair, immortalized as the constellation Coma Berenices.
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Gold pentadrachm, Berenike II, 244-221 BC
Rosalba Carriera - Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo as Berenice
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Berenice II knipt een lok haar af, RP-P-2002-194
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Fragment of a Vase Depicting Berenike II MET 26.7.1016 EGDP018500
Fragment of a Vase Depicting Berenike II MET DP245506Family
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Berenice inherited Cyrenaica in 250 or 249 BCE and briefly married Demetrius the Fair to secure his rule, but a power struggle with her mother followed. She then married her half-cousin Ptolemy III, folding Cyrenaica back into Ptolemaic Egypt in 246 BCE. As queen she governed actively, entered the state cult, and was worshipped as a deity in her own right. Her hair sacrifice became the stuff of legend, pinned to the night sky in the constellation that still bears her name. In 221 BCE, shortly after her son Ptolemy IV took the throne, the regent Sosibius had her murdered.
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