ptolemaic
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- a of or relating to the astronomer Ptolemy
- s of or relating to the geocentric Ptolemaic system
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- Zahi Hawass in Independent Online
Hawass said: "I have never seen...... a mummy from the Ptolemaic period that is so unique, that is well-preserved. The linen is covering it in a beautiful way." - Constantine Cavafy in Business Standard
If he hadn't been a poet, Cavafy said he would have been a historian, "in part to examine an era/in part to while away time/last night I picked up to read/ a collection of Ptolemaic inscriptions" is how a poem begins.