Abstract

The Ptolemaic sealings with the eagle on elephant motif [e.g. on a clay seal from the Edfu hoard in the Allard Pierson Museum] apparently belong to the later stages of Egyptian-Syrian rivalry. - Asia and Syria in the royal ideology of pharaonic and Hellenistic Egypt. - The elephant as a symbol in Egyptian royal ideology. - The elephant as a symbol in Ptolemaic seal portraiture. - The eagle as a Ptolemaic symbol.

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