Ptolemy V
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Ptolemaic king, father of Potbelly, ruled Egypt briefly
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentNeil MacGregor99% Invisible · The Original 100 Objects · 34:53 · 21 Jul
…We're in Egypt, with Ptolemy V, a Greek boy king who came to the throne as an orphan in 205 BC, at the age of six.…
Dr. Ilona RegulskiThe Ancients · The Rosetta Stone · 5:02 · 7 Jun
…And so the Rosetta Stone dates to the reign of Ptolemy V. But we have an earlier version of the text from the reign of Ptolemy III.…
AndrewHistory For Weirdos · Episode 149: Potbelly - the Infamous Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Eg... · 9:35 · Mar 2025
…I know. And I'm not. I promise. I would have made it much clearer. Yeah. So if you get confused, that's okay. It's confusing. Look up their family tree. It's really gross. Okay. So we're going to go forward a little bit to September of 180 BCE. Okay. This is where Ptolemy V, so Potbelly's dad, he is barely 30. At the oldest, he'd be 30 years old, and he is…
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