{"id":518870,"date":"2010-04-07T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-4985344838414044092"},"modified":"2010-04-07T06:46:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:46:01","slug":"octavian-augustus-named-as-egyptian-pharaoh-on-philae-victory-stele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518870","title":{"rendered":"Octavian Augustus Named as Egyptian Pharaoh on Philae Victory Stele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heritage-key.com\/blogs\/owenjarus\/roman-emperor-octavian-augustus-named-egyptian-pharaoh-philae-victory-stele\">Heritage Key<\/a> (Owen Jarus)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new translation of a Roman victory stele, erected in April 29 BC, shows Octavian Augustus\u2019s name inscribed in a cartouche (an oblong enclosure that surrounds a pharaoh\u2019s name) \u2013 an honour normally reserved for an Egyptian pharaoh.<\/p>\n<p>Octavian\u2019s forces defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.  His forces captured Alexandria soon afterwards and Cleopatra committed suicide in 30 BC, marking the end of Egyptian rule.<\/p>\n<p>Historians believe that although Octavian ruled Egypt after the death of Cleopatra, he was never actually crowned as an Egyptian pharaoh.<\/p>\n<p>The stele was erected at a time when Octavian was still paying lip service to restoring the Roman Republic. He would not be named \u201cAugustus\u201d by the Roman Senate until 27 BC. In the years following that, he would gradually acquire more power.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-4985344838414044092?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) A new translation of a Roman victory stele, erected in April 29 BC, shows Octavian Augustus\u2019s name inscribed in a cartouche (an oblong enclosure that surrounds a pharaoh\u2019s name) \u2013 an honour normally reserved for an Egyptian pharaoh. Octavian\u2019s forces defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}