Word: caesarion
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...public view for the first time is an 80-cm granite head-believed to represent Ptolemy XV Caesar (Caesarion), Cleopatra's son by Julius Caesar-found in the harbor at Alexandria, Cleopatra's capital, by French archaeologists in 1997. Side by side are three smaller marble heads from the city-of the Greek god Serapis and two Ptolemaic rulers-that probably have not been displayed together for two millennia...
...sons by Cleopatra the title of kings, bestowing Armenia, Media and the Parthian Empire on Alexander and Phoenicia, Syria and Cilicia on his younger brother Ptolemy Philadelphus. After the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, their three children were made to live out their lives in obscurity. Half-brother Caesarion was not so fortunate. He was executed by Octavian...
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