Round 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 to celebrate a goddess who protected sailors. A ruler of this empire commissioned a temple honoring the demigod brothers Pedesi and Pihor that was taken to the Met’s Sackler Wing from Dendur in 1967. This was the later of two empires whose upper class was buried with naturalistic (*) portraits on wooden boards named for Fayum. A novel from this empire is our main source for the Mysteries of Isis. (-5[1])After mysteriously drowning, a boy from this empire was deified by his lover, a ruler of it who founded Antinoöpolis. The Care of Annona brought grain from this empire’s breadbasket province of Egypt to Ostia. For 10 points, (10[1])name this empire whose first ruler defeated Cleopatra at Actium. ■END■

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