# Museum accounts print royal Isis iconography as a cohesion heading across Greek and Egyptian publics

Date: 1920

## The fact

BM/Met objects and essays print [Cleopatra](/people/cleopatra)’s Isis-associated presentation as a way to address more than one people. The dated carrier is that modern object-interpretation. Cohesion heading of medium confidence; it can also sacralise extraction.

## Context

Split Orientalist later uses of the same goddess-queen type.

Cleopatra is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official museum, UNESCO, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: British Museum collection — Ptolemaic coins and objects (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection; British Museum).

## Significance

Printed Isis-queen iconography is not a 1869 odalisque.

Printed Isis-queen iconography is not a 1869 odalisque.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Cleopatra: https://factrail.ai/people/cleopatra

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ptol/hd_ptol.htm
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cl-social-cohesion-isis-heading