Queens' wealth

Queens’ role in the Ptolemaic monarchy has been recently explored and the direct influence that many queens had in the political life both in the third and second centuries has been stressed as well. But even the more determined and authoritative queen needed to be supported by people that not only believed in the strength of the sovereign, but had, or hoped to have, some advantages. To be relevant in politcal life has always been expensive, so an historian has to wonder first how some queens could afford their political influence and second, if some peculiar economic features, that are documented in papyri (like the barges or the land of the Queen), expecially from the II B.C. , can be connected to this evolution in the hellenistic kingship in Egypt and what was the possible juridical status of this patrimony.