Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter
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Cleopatra Selini and the Kingdom of Mauritania
Cleopatra Selini could play up her Egyptian heritage especially since it would be a way of increasing her and by implication jubre's personal prestige. Egypt in this period becomes very fashionable in Rome there is so much interest in Egyptian art and Egyptian architecture. She gets to embody that and bring that sort of cosmopolitan sophistication into Mauritania and Mauritania society no sadly CleopatraSelini like a mother didn't have a very long life.
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