Cleopatra: A Life

Illustration Credits

Endpapers: Nimatallah / Art Resource, NY

Watercolor of the Canopic Way: Jean-Claude Golvin

Watercolor of Alexandria: Jean-Claude Golvin

The world as Cleopatra knew it: Cram’s 1895 Universal Atlas

Possible Cleopatra, in Parian marble: Sandro Vannini / Corbis

Possible Cleopatra, with tight chignon: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY

Possible Cleopatra, without a diadem: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Possible Cleopatra, with pronounced cheekbones: © Hellenic Republic / Ministry of Culture / Delos Museum

Women playing knucklebones: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Girl with writing tablet: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

Ptolemy Auletes: Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

Ivory game piece depicting Ptolemy XIV: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Likely Caesarion, in granite: Araldo de Luca

Granite Cleopatra as Isis: © Musée royal de Mariemont

Bust of Ptolemy Philadelphus: Jack A. Josephson

Basalt statue of Cleopatra: Image courtesy of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California

Likely Alexander Helios: Photo © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Cleopatra stela: Louvre, Paris, France / Lauros / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library

Bust of Caesar: Scala / Art Resource, NY

Buchis bull stela: Cairo, Egyptian Museum

Chalcedony intaglio of Caesar: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Bust of Mark Antony: akg-images

Red jasper intaglio of Mark Antony: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Bronze Cyprus coin: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Bronze Alexandria coin: Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow

Silver Antioch tetradrachm: Courtesy of the American Numismatic Society

Silver Ascalon tetradrachm: By courtesy of The Fan Museum, Greenwich, London

Gold ring with Ptolemaic queen: V&A Images, Victoria and Albert Museum

Blue glass intaglio: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Temple of Hathor at Dendera: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

Bust of Cicero: Galleria degli Uffizi, Alinari / The Bridgeman Art Library

Statue of Octavian: National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Bust of Octavia: The Granger Collection / GetStock.com

Hellenistic mosaic: © Bibliotheca Alexandria Antiquities Museum, photo by Mohamed Nafea

Gold, stone, and glass earrings: Art Resource, NY

Crocodile denarius: TopFoto / GetStock.com