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ptolemies (noun): 'Ptolemies' refers to the dynasty that ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great, including Cleopatra
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- The Ptolemaic dynasty.
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Shame on the house of ptolemies.
The Ptolemies did not merely collect old knowledge.
Shame on the house of Ptolemies for such barbarity.
He also appears in a list of deified Ptolemies.
Numbering the Ptolemies is a modern convention.
A volume of inscriptions about the Ptolemies.
Palestine remained under the Ptolemies for nearly a century.
The Ptolemies were believed to be gods.
This effort was particularly noticeable under the early Ptolemies.
The age of the Ptolemies are here for the first time.
This office became very important under the Ptolemies.
The early Ptolemies did not disturb the religion or the customs of the Egyptians.
The temple built during the reigns of six Ptolemies.
The Ptolemies did some extensive repairing and some new building on the center section.
The city enjoyed a calm political history under the Ptolemies.
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Other Ptolemies and even Romans also contributed to various parts of it.
Another somewhat similar composition he prepared for one of the Ptolemies.
The chief rival of the Ptolemies was the Seleucid empire to the north.
Socotra had been an important trading centre since at least the time of the Ptolemies.
The Egyptians soon accepted the Ptolemies as the successors to the pharaohs of independent Egypt.
Because the city possessed this link to the sea it was taken by the Ptolemies.
It was the Ptolemies that would rule Egypt.
Most of the Antiochid elephants were taken by the Ptolemies.
Cup of the Ptolemies a large Roman or Hellenistic vessel.
A notable example of the latter is the Cup of the Ptolemies.
The Ptolemies used the smaller African elephant.
The name is attested under the Seleucids and Ptolemies.
The Ptolemies take control of Palestine.
The decline of the Ptolemies.
The Ptolemies and the Seleucids have long disappeared.
With her ended the dynasty of the Ptolemies in Egypt.
The Ptolemies married.
In this his reign marks the gradual Egyptianisation of the Ptolemies.
Cup of the Ptolemies.
It may have previously been known as Berenice Panchrysos of the Ptolemies.
It is under the Ptolemies that the cult of Isis extends to Rome and Greece.
The city was always flourishing under the Ptolemies and the Romans.
Later the Ptolemies and then the Romans successively ruled the Nile valley.
Cleopatra the last of the Ptolemies in Egypt.
By doing so, the Ptolemies were adapting earlier Egyptian ideas in pharaonic worship.
There are records of Celtic mercenaries in Egypt serving the Ptolemies.
Numbering the Ptolemies is a modern invention ; the Greeks distinguished them by nickname.
Alexandria under the Ptolemies.
Once the Ptolemies were successful in dominating the whole island, all city kingdoms were abolished.
Memphis under the Ptolemies.
The Ptolemies maintained the country 's division into regions with the governor as the head.
Alexander the Ptolemies.
The Ptolemies were eager to fill this library with all possible books, from all cultures.
Built by the Ptolemies.
Alexandria was also the capital of the longest surviving Hellenistic dynasty, the Ptolemies.
