No konsensus on se, että tiedetään tuo isän puolelta tuleva sukulinja, joka on juurikin makedonialainen. Tai siis, ainakin pääasiassa makedonialainen, osittain kiitos suht vahvalle insestille. Mutta Kleopatran äidin puolelta homma kaatuu jo ihan siihen, että ei tiedetä kuka Kleopatran äiti oli. Siitä on semihyviä veikkauksia, mutta ei mitään lähellekään varmuutta.
Kyllä tuo konsensus koskee myös sitä äidin sukulinjaa. Ei pitäisi olla näin vaikeaa.
"There is a general consensus among scholars that she was predominantly of
Macedonian Greek ancestry and minorly of
Iranian descent (
Sogdian and
Persian). Others, including some scholars and laymen, have speculated whether she may have had additional ancestries."
" Scholars have generally identified Cleopatra as having been essentially of
Greek ancestry with some
Persian and
Sogdian Iranian ancestry, based on the fact that her Macedonian Greek family (the
Ptolemaic dynasty) had intermarried with the
Seleucid dynasty. "
Afrikkalaisjuuria on debunkattu.
" The black Cleopatra claim was further revived in an essay by
Afrocentrist author
John Henrik Clarke, chair of African history at
Hunter College, entitled "African Warrior Queens."
[9] Lefkowitz notes the essay includes the claim that Cleopatra described herself as black in the
New Testament's
Book of Acts – when in fact Cleopatra had died more than sixty years before the death of
Jesus Christ.
[9] Some early twentieth century scholars speculated Cleopatra was part
Jewish, but this hypothesis didn't last into later twentieth century
historiography. "
" In 2009, a
BBC documentary speculated that Cleopatra might have been part North African. This was based largely on the examination of a headless skeleton of a female child in a 20 BCE tomb in
Ephesus (modern
Turkey), together with the old notes and photographs of the now-missing skull. The remains were hypothesized to be those of
Arsinoe IV, half-sister to Cleopatra,
[17][18] and conjecture based on discredited processes suggested that the remains belonged to a girl whose "race" may have been "North African". This claim is rejected by scholars, based on the remains being impossible to identify as Arsinoe, the race of the remains being impossible to identify at all, the fact that the remains belonged to a child much younger than Arsinoe when she died, and the fact that Arsinoe and Cleopatra shared the same father,
Ptolemy XII Auletes, but may have had different mothers. "
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