PTOLEMY’S CANON

This Canon list the Ptolemy’s, as being ten in the following manner:

Alexander

Phillip Arideus

Alexander AEgus

 

Ptolemy’s Canon

  1. Lagus
  2. Philidelphus
  3. Euergetes
  4. Philopater
  5. Epiphanes
  6. Philometer
  7. Euergetes 11
  8. Soter
  9. Dionysus
  10. Cleopatra

Often Alexander et al are included in the count making the numbers off key!

(I have missed one Euergetes because I have to track down the book and reference). So here we go…

Egypt_Ptolemy_I

Ptolemy Lagus

From Real History, (usually on point so I didn’t bother to check it).

A king ptol 11

Ptolemy Philadelphus 285 BC – 247 BC

King Ptolemy II. Universite de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin); no.1585.

Ptolemy Philopater

Ptolemy Philopater

Upper portion of an arragonite seated statue of a king, or prince, of Egypt, perhaps of one of the Ptolemies. About 200 B.C. Height 1 ft. 1 1 in. No. 947. Presented by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1854. (To the British Museum).

Ptolemy Epiphanes

Ptolemy Epiphanes 205 BC – 181 BC

Bust of a Ptolemy. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University,

New Haven, Conn.; no. 384 {on indefinite loan at the Yale University Art Gallery, no. 1.1.1953).

Ptolemy Philometer

Ptolemy Philometer Sphinx 150 BC

Head from a Ptolemaic Sphinx.( Mr. Avery Brundage, Santa Barbara), Cat.; 710. 2/97.

Ptolemy Euergetes

Bronze Figure of Ptolemy X Euergetes 11, Gorringe Colleciion.

a Ptolemy

Ptolemy Soter

Head of Ptolemy V111 [145-116 B.C.]. Diorite. H: 51 cm. Brussels, Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire. E1839.

Ptolemy Dionysus

Ptolemy Dionysus 80 BC – 51 BC

No.1188 British Museum (erroneously labelled the X111th Ptolemy instead of the 9th or 12th).

Cleo british Museum Cabinet des Medailles Collection

Queen Cleopatra V11, 80 BC – 52 BC

Cabinet des Medailles Collection, (British Museum).

 

One would hardly think there were any Monuments or Statutes when one clasps ones eyes on the coins revisionist like to advance…

 

Ptolemies1

Wonder where they got all these  from.

A head scratch

SNARLAKS

Hope you all have a few ‘letters’ after your names, otherwise you will not be good sports.

I refer of course to the BOLD statements that Europeans had no black Royals. You all are littered with them.

I believe the Moors RULED EUROPE for several hundred years – Were your Emperors too. Why you don’t like that?

Moor king progenitor of Habsburgs Bloodline

Hapsburg Emperor of EUROPE – Like his Coat of Arms eh?

Moor King of Europe

Look how adoringly you used to look upon your ROYALS…

Moor Palace Guard Unknown Artist

And these were the guards that prevented your little UPSTART selves from bothering your black KINGS and QUEENS.