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Arsinoe II
Arsinoë II was Queen consort of Thrace, Anatolia, and Macedonia by her first and second marriage, to king Lysimachus and king Ptolemy Keraunos respectively, and then Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt by marriage to her brother, Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. As an Egyptian queen she acquired the royal name Arsinoe Philadelphos, as well the title nswt-bjtj that may suggest she was co-ruler…
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politics · Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom (c.316–c.270/268 BC) · monarch · also Arsinoe II, Arsinoë II, Arsinoe II Philadelphus, II
Born 316 BC · Died 270 BC · Q40234
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