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Cleopatra VI Tryphaena (d. 57 BC)

Hieroglyphic name:
Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra VI
Cleopatra VI
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena was the wife of Ptolemy XII. Her origin is strange, but she was presumably his sister or half sister and so daughter of Ptolemy IX. She evidently stayed in the country when her husband was routed out in 58 BC and ruled collectively with her daughter, Berenice IV. Earlier learners had reckoned that the  coruler  was  a  sister  of  Berenice  IV and  looked  Cleopatra V Tryphaena as the mother and Cleopatra VI Tryphaena as the daughter, but these two are now considered as one and the same; the appointment Cleopatra V has now been assigned to Cleopatra V Selene.



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