Note 157 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES
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See last note. The eagle was adopted as a kind of family crest by the Ptolemies and appears on all their coins. See examples in Mahaffy, Emp. of the Ptolemies, passim. What is probably a reproduction of Bryaxis’ statue is now at Naples and is described by Lafaye, op. cit. p. 274.