Editing Caesarion (section)

==Depictions==
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File:Venus and Cupid from the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus at Pompeii, most likely a depiction of Cleopatra VII.jpg|This mid-1st&nbsp;century&nbsp;AD [[Pompeian Styles|Roman wall painting]] in [[Pompeii]], Italy, showing [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] holding a [[cupid]] is most likely a depiction of [[Cleopatra VII]] of [[Ptolemaic Egypt]] as [[Venus (mythology)#Epithets|Venus Genetrix]], with her son Caesarion as the cupid<ref>The wall-painting of Venus Genetrix is similar in appearance to the now-lost statue of Cleopatra erected by Julius Caesar in the [[Temple of Venus Genetrix]], within the [[Forum of Caesar]]. The owner of the House at Pompeii of Marcus Fabius Rufus, walled off the room with this painting, most likely in immediate reaction to the execution of Caesarion on orders of [[Augustus]] in 30&nbsp;BC, when artistic depictions of Caesarion would have been considered [[Damnatio memoriae|a sensitive issue]] for the ruling regime.</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Roller, Duane W. |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZo6DwAAQBAJ |title=Cleopatra: A Biography |location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195365535 |page=175}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Walker, Susan |year=2008 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0068246200000404 |title=Cleopatra in Pompeii? |journal=Papers of the British School at Rome |volume=76 |pages=35–46, 345–348|doi=10.1017/S0068246200000404 |s2cid=62829223 }}</ref>
File:Statue of Horus in Edfu Temple.jpg|One of two statues of the falcon god [[Horus]] behind a smaller depiction of Caesarion at the [[Temple of Edfu]] in [[Edfu]], [[Upper Egypt]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Fletcher |first=Joann |author-link=Joann Fletcher |title=Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend |year=2008 |publisher=Harper |location=New York |isbn=978-0-06-058558-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cleopatragreatwo00flet/page/219 219, image plates and caption between 246–247] |url=https://archive.org/details/cleopatragreatwo00flet/page/219 }}</ref>
File:RPC-3901 Cleopatra VII with baby Ptolemy XV Caesarion son of Julius Caesar on coin of Cyprus 47BC displayed in the British Museum.jpg|A coin depicting [[Cleopatra|Cleopatra VII]] with her son Caesarion as an infant, [[British Museum|British museum]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Stuart |first1=Reginald |url=https://archive.org/details/cataloguegreekc01medagoog/mode/1up?q=Cleopatra+ |title=BMC Greek (Ptolemies) / Catalogue of Greek coins: the Ptolemies, kings of Egypt |last2=L |first2=Poole |year=1883 |page=122 |publisher=The Trustees |language=En}}</ref> 
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Few images of Caesarion survive. He is thought to be depicted in a partial statue found in the harbour of Alexandria in 1997 and is also portrayed twice in relief, as an adult pharaoh, with his mother on the Temple of [[Hathor]] at [[Dendera]]. His infant image appears on some bronze coins of Cleopatra.<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Sear |title=Greek Coins and Their Values |volume=II}}</ref>