Editing Berenice II (section)

====Berenice's Lock====
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[[File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Bootes, Canes Venatici, Coma Berenices, and Quadrans Muralis.jpg|thumb|right|''Coma Berenices'' constellation noted]]

Berenice's divinity is closely connected with the story of "Berenice's Lock". According to this story, Berenice vowed to sacrifice her long hair as a [[votive offering]] if Ptolemy III returned safely from battle during the [[Third Syrian War]]. She dedicated her tresses to and placed them in the [[Sanctuary of Arsinoe Aphrodite at Cape Zephyrion|temple at Cape Zephyrium]] in [[Alexandria]], where [[Arsinoe II]] was worshipped as Aphrodite, but the next morning the tresses had disappeared. [[Conon of Samos]], the court astronomer identified a constellation as the missing hair, claiming that Aphrodite had placed it in the sky as an acknowledgement of Berenice's sacrifice. The constellation is known to this day as ''Coma Berenices'' ([[Latin]] for 'Berenice's Lock').<ref name="Barentine">{{cite book |first= John C. |last= Barentine |title= Uncharted Constellations: Asterisms, Single-Source and Rebrands |publisher =Springer |year=2016| page=17 |isbn= 978-3-319-27619-9}}</ref> It is unclear whether this event took place before or after Ptolemy's return; Branko van Oppen de Ruiter suggests that it happened after Ptolemy's return (around March–June or May 245 BCE).<ref>{{harvnb|van Oppen de Ruiter|2016|p=110}}</ref> This episode served to link Berenice with the goddess Isis in her role as goddess of rebirth, since she was meant to have dedicated a lock of her own hair at [[Koptos]] in mourning for her husband [[Osiris]].<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''De Iside et Osiride'' 14.</ref><ref name=H105/>

The story was widely propagated by the Ptolemaic court. [[Seal (emblem)|Seals]] were produced depicting Berenice with a shaved head and the attributes of Isis/[[Demeter]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pantos |first1=P. A. |title=Bérénice II Démèter |journal=Bulletin des correspondence hellenique |date=1987 |volume=111 |pages=343–352 |language=fr|doi=10.3406/bch.1987.1777 }}</ref><ref name=H105/> The poet [[Callimachus]], who was based in the Ptolemaic court, celebrated the event in a poem, ''The Lock of Berenice'', of which only a few lines remain.<ref>[[Callimachus]] fragment 110 [[Rudolf Pfeiffer|Pfeiffer]].</ref> The first century BCE Roman poet [[Catullus]] produced a loose translation or adaptation of the poem in [[Latin]],<ref>[[Catullus 66]]</ref> and a prose summary appears in [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]]' ''[[De astronomia]]''.<ref name=GHDA2.24>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]] ''[[De astronomia]]'' 2.24</ref><ref name="Barentine"/> The story was popular in the early modern period when it was illustrated by many [[Neoclassicism|neoclassical]] painters.<!--Need to find an example-->