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Cleopatra, carving from the temple of Horus at Idfū, Egypt.
Cleopatra VII was the daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes.12
While it is widely considered most likely that her mother was Ptolemy XII's wife and sister, Cleopatra V Tryphaeana, the identity of Cleopatra VII's mother remains a mystery and is not definitively proven by historical evidence.32