bgr_766438 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES Dichalque

EGYPT - UNITED Ptolemy - Ptolemy V Epiphanes

(204-180 BC)

Ptolemy V, King 5 years, died at 29. He was crowned Pharaoh in Memphis in 197 BC This event was immortalized by the Rosetta Stone that Champollion was transcribing 2,000 years later, delivering the key to hieroglyphics. Ptolemy V married Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus III, and left two minor son Ptolemy VI and VIII.