Cleopatra Meets Caesar Carpet

After wrapping her up her servant apollodoros presented the carpet to caesar.

Cleopatra meets caesar carpet. A decree in demotic a shorthand version of hieroglyphs was set up in the serapeum at saqqara and his lineage proclaimed on monuments across egypt including a famous scene in the temple of dendera caesar seems to have been very proud that he had finally had a son. Cleopatra gave birth to ptolemy xv caesarion on 23 june 47 bc. In 48 bc the resourceful cleopatra forbidden by her brother ptolemy xiii to meet with the roman general had herself wrapped in a carpet or according to some historians a linen sack and smuggled into caesar s quarters. Then cleopatra revealed herself and explained her situation to the dictator.

As i explain in this article i wrote in january 2020 the famous story of cleopatra rolling out of a carpet when she met julius caesar for the first time comes from a mistranslation of a passage in the biography the life of julius caesar written. Cleopatra and caesar french.