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Berenice IPtolemaic Period
The wife of Ptolemy I Soter, the founder of the dynasty, was evidently a woman of formidable character. With her husband, she was proclaimed divine by their son Ptolemy II Philadelphus, as set out in the Canopus Decree issued in 239 BC.
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