Cleopatra VI of Egypt

Cleopatra VI. Tryphaena (c. 95 BC; † 57 () BC? ) Was an Egyptian pharaoh ( Queen ) and since about 80/ 79 AD the only safe testified wife of Ptolemy XII. Neos Dionysos. She gave birth to her husband 's daughter Berenice IV and possibly other children including the famous Cleopatra. It was probably of Ptolemy XII. as a result of disputes 69 BC violated and only came back after his expulsion 58 BC in appearance, when she took over the government of Egypt with Berenice IV. Already in 57 BC but they should have died.

Life

Due to the meager source location is Cleopatra VI. Tryphaena a very shadowy figure, over which are known only very few reliable facts; many aspects of their lives are the subject of controversial theories. Even its associated by modern research numbering of its name is uneven: Felix Staehelin and Christopher Bennett they are about as Cleopatra V., Günther Hölbl and Lloyd Llewellyn- Jones as Cleopatra VI. and finally Werner Huss as Cleopatra VII In all source their products and the epithet Tryphaena is always resolved; maybe she has that originally led alone and accepted the meantime had become customary for Ptolemaic queens Cleopatra name only after her accession.

There is also no record of who the parents of Cleopatra VI. Tryphaena were. The most ancient historians, such as Werner Huss, they keep for a daughter of Ptolemy IX. and a sister or half-sister of her husband Ptolemy XII. Christopher Bennett, however, assumes that they are the connection of Ptolemy X. Cleopatra Berenice III. was sprung.

The first datable attestation Cleopatra VI. comes from the January 17, 79 BC It is also yet another mention of Cleopatra VI. BC known in 80 /79, a papyrus document. 80/79 BC, was probably the year of the wedding of Cleopatra VI. and Ptolemy XII. , on a coin celebrating the Decennalien her marriage suggesting. The royal couple received as Theoi Philopatores kai Philádelphoi ( " father and siblings loving gods " ) ritual worship.

Since the end of 69 BC appeared the name of Cleopatra VI. in Ptolemaic files no longer on. Your last mention in a Ptolemaic monument dates from August 8, 69 BC, while their name is missing in a document dated November 1, 69 BC. Although some older scholars such as Felix Stähelin explained this with the presumption that Cleopatra VI. had died then, but tends modern research such as Werner Huss mainly to the theory that Cleopatra VI. , was apparently because of violent conflicts between the royal spouses, violated. Stähelin leads, among others, as proof of his theory that, according to Porphyry, after the expulsion of Ptolemy XII. Had 58 BC his two daughters Cleopatra Tryphaena and Berenice IV over the government. But Strabo only three daughters of Ptolemy XII. (apparently Berenice IV, Cleopatra VII and Arsinoe IV ), so no daughter Cleopatra Tryphaena knows and according to the findings of the reliefs on the pylons of the temple of Edfu Cleopatra VI. 69 BC was not yet dead, it seems clear that the rulers of the year 58/57 BC, mother and daughter were.

There is some debate in the research, whether Cleopatra VI. the mother of all known children of Ptolemy XII. had. These children were Berenice IV (* 78-75 BC, † 55 BC) Cleopatra VII ( 69 BC *, † 30 BC ), Arsinoe IV (* between 68 and 65 BC, † 41 BC), Ptolemy XIII. (* 61 BC, † 47 BC) and Ptolemy XIV (c. 59 BC, † 44 BC).

Berenice IV is pretty unanimous in research for a daughter Cleopatra VI. held, inter alia, on the basis of Strabo's remark that. of the three daughters of Ptolemy XII only the oldest, so probably Berenice IV, was legitimate. This assertion implies of course, that at least the two younger daughters of Ptolemy XII. , Cleopatra VII and Arsinoe IV would have been illegitimate. Werner Huss represents the theory that Ptolemy XII. was married a second marriage with a High Priest of Memphis Gender entstamme make ends Egyptian - possibly in a - illegitimate from Greek point of view. This could be the mother of Cleopatra VII and have been their younger siblings. An Egyptian mother could make it more understandable that Cleopatra VII was fluent in Egyptian, according to a statement by Plutarch in contrast to earlier Ptolemies. However, a second marriage of Ptolemy XII is nowhere attested, apart from the statement of a stela (BM 886 ), that the king visited with his " women " and " children " Memphis. It is doubtful, however, that the term " women " is meant in the sense of wives; perhaps so that ladies were marked. Furthermore, Cleopatra VII was before the alleged repudiation of Cleopatra VI. begotten, and also can be found in the comprehensive hostile propaganda against Rome Cleopatra VII no hint that she was illegitimate origin, although such a descent would have been a very useful point for attacks. Michael Grant, a simultaneous double marriage of Ptolemy XII. considers to be very unlikely, therefore concludes that Cleopatra VI. the mother of Cleopatra VII was; another woman, however, was the mother of Arsinoe IV, Ptolemy XIII. and Ptolemy XIV was. Christopher Bennett in turn assumes that Cleopatra VI. the mother of all known children of Ptolemy XII was.

If in the above remark of Porphyry mentioned Cleopatra Tryphaena with the wife of Ptolemy XII. , Cleopatra VI. , Is equated, as many ancient historians ( Huss, Hölbl, Bennett, etc. ) do, then took Cleopatra VI. in the year 58 BC, after the expulsion of Ptolemy XII. by the Alexandrians, together with her daughter Berenice IV the rule in Egypt. In papyrus documents was dated twice by two queens. According to the inscription of the Edfu temple to Ptolemy XII. and Cleopatra VI. this sanctuary have completed on December 5, 57 BC. However, Ptolemy XII was. distributed at this time from Egypt. January Quaegebeur suggested that the inscription does not refer to Ptolemy XII. , But on Ptolemy X and is therefore to be dated on December 13, 89 BC. After the above note of Porphyry was Cleopatra VI. already after one year of government, ie in 57 BC, died.