«Thank God, Amon Ra, who sent us the pool of Princess Cleopatra?»
The princess heard her name in the Egyptian dialect, shouted back:
Peace to the people of Egypt and prosperity, be it to you!
She got out of the water, and, going up to her father, said:
«I have such bliss as here in these waters of the basin, called by the people my name just now, I have never felt. Truly it is necessary to pass through the desert to plunge into these divine waters, which give healing to the decline of forces from the sand of hell.
Pharaoh indulgently turned his head towards his daughter and majestically replied:
«Come, the priests of the sanctuary of the Oracle await us.» Having said this, Ptolemy turned towards the city, through which Pharaoh and his daughter had to go, accompanied by two guards to the temple. Cleopatra gave her veil to a slave girl who served her on the way and herself in a wet yet tunic followed her father to the capital of the oasis of Agurmi.
Security soldiers were engaged with a representative of local officials, who was engaged in caravan accommodation and accommodation.
The road again went up, and the roofs of the houses were already visible above the high city wall. From the Cleopatras basin with the date palm garden, Pharaoh and her daughter, accompanied by two guards, walked unhurriedly to the city wall, along the road trampled by the pickers of dates and olives from the gardens that grow on its both sides. Earlier, the horses and camels of the caravan were arranged, arranging them for rest, while the soldiers and Cleopatra splashed in the pool. Pharaoh and his companions entered the wide open city gates, skillfully made from palm tree and painted in blue. All houses were made from a clay straw mixture with manure that became hard in the sun like a rock. The road led to the square where the pilgrims saw before the benches of hay, the camels were chewing the food slowly. The horses of the guard snorted beside the tether. Leather bags with oats are fixed at horse mouths.