This is the only pair offspring image of Cleopatra and Antony - Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene

Pair statue of Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene - twin children of Cleopatra and Antony
Source: news.discovery.com

In a pair of limestone sculpture located in the collections of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, an Italian academic Egyptologist Giuseppina Kapriotti (Giuseppina Capriotti) recognized the twin children of Cleopatra and Antony. This was reported by Discovery News and the Italian news agency ANSA.

other pair of images of child twins Cleopatra - Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene - the science is not known. Meter-high sculpture found in 1918 on the west bank of the Nile near the temple at Dendera, after which she took her place in the Cairo Museum. However, its detailed study of one to Kapriotti not involved.

Italian scientists agreed that the two almost identical figures of nude boys and girls may be the image of Cleopatra's children after the boy recognized over the head the solar disk and over the head girl - half the full moon. These correspond to the second planet names of children of Cleopatra. At birth, they are simply called Alexander and Cleopatra, but later, when Antony formally recognized their offspring, the first name added symbolic prefix "Helios" (the Sun) and "Selena" (Moon). The two intertwined serpents, on which sit the twins could also symbolize the moon and sun. All images of the planet is a sign of Wadjet (Eye of Ra) - the usual symbol for the ancient Egyptian art. Correspond to the era of Cleopatra's hair, and figurines.

Until now, science had only known image of Cleopatra Selene grown on the coins, and one of her sculptures.

Prepared Onuchina Maria, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru