The Eagle and the Elephant

• Autores: Catharine C. Lorber
• Localización: Chronique d'Egypte, ISSN 0009-6067, Vol. 94, Nº. 188, 2019, págs. 397-424
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The Ptolemaic sealings with the eagle on elephant motif [e.g. on a clay seal from the Edfu hoard in the Allard Pierson Museum] apparently belong to the later stages of Egyptian-Syrian rivalry. - Asia and Syria in the royal ideology of pharaonic and Hellenistic Egypt. - The elephant as a symbol in Egyptian royal ideology. - The elephant as a symbol in Ptolemaic seal portraiture. - The eagle as a Ptolemaic symbol.