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Ptolemaia is a
genus of
extinct Afrotherian mammals from the
Oligocene of East Africa. The
genus and type species, P. lyonsi, was
described by
Henry Fairfield...
- be a primate, but, later, when
elongated skulls with long
canines of
Ptolemaia and
Qarunavus were found, they were then
thought to be hyaenodontids,...
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uncertain location. In Delos,
Ptolemy established a festival,
called the
Ptolemaia in 249 BC,
which advertised continued Ptolemaic investment and involvement...
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title of the
Priest of
Alexander the
Great in Alexandria, who led the
Ptolemaia festival and
whose name and
titulary was used to name the year in all...
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Syrian war.
Ptolemaic Egypt had a
dynastic cult,
which centred on the
Ptolemaia festival and the
annual priest of
Alexander the Great,
whose full title...
- Menelaus, king of Sparta. The
acronycal rising marked the date of the
Ptolemaia festival in Egypt. In
ancient India, it was
named Agastya after the revered...
- the 13th
phyle Ptolemais and
establishing a
religious cult
called the
Ptolemaia. ****enistic
Athens also saw the rise of New
Comedy and the ****enistic...
- protocones, very
large paracones and
large metacones.
Unlike the
similar genus Ptolemaia, the
premolars 3 and 4 do not
possess parastyles.
These premolars would...
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religious festival in
honour of the
Ptolemaic royal family called the
Ptolemaia at
which gymnastic competitions were held.
Political infighting at the...
- III and
Berenice II were
worshipped as gods,
including a festival, the
Ptolemaia. The
centre of the cult was the Ptolemaion,
which also
served as the gymnasium...
