Ptolemy III Euergetes I, King of Egypt (246-221BC)

   General Notes:

He is most noted for his invasions of the northern kingdom of Syria which he commenced upon the murder of his eldest sister Berenice Phernophorus.

Ptolemy III Euergetes had put up the first of the Rosetta Stone series, the bilingual inscriptions on massive stone blocks in three writing systems. Ptolemy III's stone stele is the Canopus Stone of 238 B.C.E. His son, Ptolemy IV, is responsible for the Memphis Stele, or Memphis Stone, the second in the series, bearing the Decree of Memphis, about 218 B.C.E. The famous Rosetta Stone is the third, erected by Ptolemy V, in 196 BC.

   Marriage Information:

Ptolemy married Berenike II, Princess of Cyrene, daughter of King Magas of Cyrene and Apama SELEUCID Princess of Syria.