Cleopatra did leave some physical clues about her appearance. Some of these can be found in coins. The coin above, minted during Cleopatra's life, gives her curly hair, a hooked nose, and a jutting chin. Most coins of Cleopatra present a similar image — especially the aquiline nose. 20 июл. 2021 г.
What did the true Cleopatra look like?
Her face is framed by ringlets of curly hair, and the rest of her hair is arranged in a “melon” style (divided into segments that run like the ribs of a melon from the forehead back) and gathered into a bun behind her head. Her eyes are almond-shaped.
What skin color was Cleopatra?
Ernle Bradford writes that it is "reasonable to infer" Cleopatra had dark hair and "pale olive skin" by how she portrays herself as a "Eastern Mediterranean type" on her official coins, and that she challenged Rome not as an Egyptian woman, "but as a civilized Greek." Barbara Watterson notes that Cleopatra's coins show ...
Was Cleopatra black or white?
Despite these attempts to understand the anomalies in Cleopatra's family history, for the most part, when asked, most scholars and students of the Greco-Roman world, will say, without hesitation “Cleopatra VII was white—of Macedonian descent, as were all of the Ptolemy rulers, who lived in Egypt.” They often even ...
