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An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscriptsYoung, Thomas

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An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts

Name: An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts
Author: Young, Thomas

Young, Thomas

Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic

XI.    SOTER II:        10 y.      (Deposed.)  1. Cleopatra,   Berenice.
         Lathurus: Pothinus.                     his sister.
         With Cleopatra                          repudiated.
         Cocce, his mother.                      2. Selene:
                                                 repudiated,
                                                 and given to
                                                 Antiochus.
                                                 3. A concubine. Auletes.
                                                                 Another son,
                                                                 who reigned in
                                                                 Cyprus, and
                                                                 killed himself.
                                                                 Cleopatra.

  XII.   ALEXANDER.       17y. 6m.   Killed      Uncertain.      Alexander II.
         Parisactes; his             in battle,
         brother. With               after                       A daughter:
         Cleopatra Cocce.            killing                     killed with
                                     his mother.                 him.

  XIII.  SOTER II, again.  8y.       Natural.

  XIV.   BERENICE,         6m.       Killed by
         daughter of                 Alexander II.
         Soter.

  XV.    ALEXANDER II.    “8y. 3m.”  “Dies at    Berenice;
         Son of Alexander.   [19 d.] Tyre.”      whom he
                                                 killed.

  XVI.   NEUS DIONYSUS:   “16y.”                 Cleopatra.      Berenice.
         Auletes. Natural                                        Cleopatra.
         son of Lathurus.                                        Ptolemy: dr.
                                                                 Ptolemy: pois.
                                                                 Arsinoe, left
                                                                 Egypt.

  XVII.  BERENICE,         2y.       Killed
         daughter of                 by her
         Auletes.                    father.

  XVIII. AULETES.          2y.       Natural.

  XIX.   PTOLEMY the       3y.       Drowned     Cleopatra
         elder and                   after       his sister.
         Cleopatra,                  a battle.
         children of Auletes.

  XX.    PTOLEMY the       4y. 6m.   Poisoned    Cleopatra
         younger and                 by his      his sister.
         Cleopatra.                  wife.

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