ptolemy v epiphanes

Gold Octodrachm of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 204-180 BCE [featured in a numismatics library book]

…the Rosetta Stone was inscribed during the regency of Ptolemy V Epiphanes. …other points of intrigue, Ptolemy V’s mother & father were also full-blooded brother & sister. Because his family practiced intermarriage & inbreeding so often, the Ptolemaic family ‘tree’ is knotting inward rather than branching outward. Hence, a few of the Ptolemys have the title: philadelphos (sibling-lover). The Cleopatra of bibilcal legend (& who also had two brother-husbands) was one of the last from the Ptolemaic dynasty to rule Egypt.

Aurelio Madrid