File:Cleopatra bust in the British Museum.jpg

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English: An ancient Roman bust, c. 50-30 BC, depicting a woman from Ptolemaic Egypt, either Queen Cleopatra VII or a member of her entourage during her 46-44 BC visit to Rome with her lover Julius Caesar. The bust is now located in the British Museum, London.


Source: "Portrait Head", The British Museum (online collection).
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Source The Project Gutenberg EBook of E.P. Brome Weigall's The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1914.
Author Photo by MacBeth in the British Museum, ancient Roman bust from the 1st century BC

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