Example sentences for: ptolemy

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  • The ancient library of Alexandria founded by Ptolemy I was said to be the greatest collection of manuscripts in the ancient world comprising some 70,000 items.

  • A second inner pylon shows Ptolemy XIII paying homage to Isis who is flanked by her husband Osiris and Horus.

  • Rooms 40 and 41 display artifacts from Egypt covering every era of history in the land of the Pharaohs, including the Ptolemaic period when Ptolemy (a general under Alexander the Great, and therefore of Greek descent) took control of Egypt.

  • (a) Amalthea (e) Edgar (i) Ichor (b) A(u)stringer, (f) Excelsior (j) Meconic Ostringer (g) Fustanella (k) Pone (c) Berceuse (h) Hang Seng (l) Ptolemy (d) Brevier

  • That brings us to the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament “said to have been made by 72 Palestinian Jews during the third century B.C. at the command of Ptolemy Philadelphus.


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