Was Cleopatra A CrossDresser?
June 5th, 2007 by Babe
Cleopatra has for long been considered the epitome of beauty and she used her looks to seduce Julius Ceasar and Mark Antony for power. But a newly discovered stone slab depicts her as a man, raising speculation about her being a crossdresser.
A relief image carved about 2050 years ago on an ancient Egyptian stone slab shows Cleopatra dressed as a man, recent analysis shows. The object is only one of three known to exist that represent Cleopatra as a male. The other two artefacts also stone slabs, or stelae, that date to around the same time, 51 BC, at the beginning of Cleopatra’s reign.
“It shows Cleopatra dressed as a male pharaoh with the [characteristically male] double crown..,”
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