Packet 11: Tossup 17

At a festival in this empire, a small boat was paraded through streets and accompanied by music and white-clad women throwing flower petals for a goddess who protected sailors. (15[1])A temple built (15[1])in this empire to honor the demigod brothers Pedesi and Pihor was taken to the Met’s Sackler Wing from Dendur in 1967. This was the later of two empires whose elites, (-5[1])such as a woman from Hawara named Aline, were buried with naturalistic (*) portraits on wooden boards named (10[1])for Fayum. (-5[1])A novel from this empire is our main source for the Mysteries (-5[1])of Isis. (10[1])After mysteriously drowning, (-5[1])a boy from this empire was deified by his (-5[1])lover, a ruler of it (10[1])who (10[1])founded Antinoöpolis. (10[1])The Care of Annona brought grain from this empire’s breadbasket of Egypt to Ostia. For 10 points, name this empire whose first ruler defeated Cleopatra at Actium. ■END■ (10[5])

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